It’s a great day! Cooch Behar Magazine in India released my poetry anthology collaboration with Editor Sourav Sarkar. This short book features selections of poetry from both Mr. Sarkar and myself, and can be found right here at Amazon.
Again, I am proud to see my work appear alongside that of a poet I greatly respect — and one with an admirable commitment to the global independent literature community.
Thank you, Cooch Behar Magazine, for this wonderful opportunity!
So here’s the great news at which I’ve been hinting to my friends. Cooch Behar Magazine in India has invited me to co-author a short poetry anthology with Editor Sourav Sarkar.
This really is an outstanding honor for me, as I greatly respect Mr. Sarkar’s work, as well as his ongoing commitment to the international independent literature community. I am very happy that I will be able to see my writing appear alongside his own.
Thank you, Cooch Behar Magazine!
I will post more details as they develop.
Cover to LIFE Magazine, November 22, 1923
Wonderful news. 🙂 Local Gems Press has selected my poem “The Secretary” to appear in its upcoming anthology, The Eagle and The Maple. This will be a special collection highlighting the work of American and Canadian writers — I’ll be delighted to see my writing showcased alongside that of our neighbors to the north.
The Eagle and The Maple is available for preorder here at the Local Gems Press website.
Thank you, Maddie McGivney and James P. Wagner, for permitting me yet again to see my work in another quality literary anthology from Local Gems Press.
I am so sorry to have to share some terribly sad news here. I spoke recently with a family member of Matthias Kruger, the truly wonderful publisher at Newington Blue Press in Germany. Our friend Matthias has passed away very suddenly due to a heart attack.
If you were lucky enough to know Matthias, then you know how important he was to so many creative people. He was an easygoing, sublimely good-natured man whose love of literature was cheerfully contagious. This was best evidenced, of course, by his outstanding work on Newington Blue Press’ BUK100 series — a beautiful series of elegant chapbooks commemorating the legacy of Charles Bukowski.
If you are anything like me, you hope that Mathias is somewhere tonight kicking back and having a beer with ol’ Buk himself — who is doubtlessly pleased by the way Matthias encouraged countless others to enjoy the writer’s work.
I am so happy to share here that Cooch Behar Magazine in India has published my “Hardy Orchids Haiku” in its new Orchid-themed anthology. You can purchase it at Amazon right here.
As always, thanks to Editor Sourav Sarkar for allowing me to see my work showcased by this outstanding indie lit publisher!
And that is today’s portmanteau, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, I’ll go you one better. A hard salami omelette is called a halamelette. That’s even more enticing. It sounds Kosher. (And “harlamelette” sounds too reminiscent of “harlot omelette;” I’m not sure what that would even be made of, but I can’t imagine it’s good.)
Please, no pedanticism about the correct spelling of “omelette,” because it’s too goddam confusing.
I suppose it is obvious that I have strayed from my avowed heart-healthy diet. I need to get back on that horse. (Back on the wagon? Getting to horse hitched to the wagon or something?)
I’m rambling again.
I’m so happy to share here that Cooch Behar Magazine in India has published two more of my poems in its anthologies. My poem “Bumblebee” was included in the publisher’s Afternoon-themed anthology, while “Roanoke Summer Midnight” was included in its Evening volume. The collections can be found here and here on Amazon, respectively.
Thanks once again to Editor Sourav Sarkar for showcasing my work in its wonderful series of books!
“I’m not a psycho. I’m an empath.”
Me: “You’re a psychempath.”
Portmanteau Nolan strikes again.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 