Care to lay hands on some poetry for the cooler days ahead? Two new anthologies from Local Gems Press are now available at Amazon.
Gathering 2025 can be found here. (If you happen to order a copy, please check out my poem, “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival.”)
Bards Poetica can be found right here. (If you order a copy of this book, I hope you’ll enjoy my poem, “Confession.”)
Have a great weekend! 🙂
I’m honored to share here that Newington Blue Press in Germany will publish my poem “Confession,” along with at least one of my photos, in the upcoming BUK100 Issue #4 — the Forever Young Edition.
Preorder information can be found here.
Thanks once again to Publishing Editor Matthias Kruger for allowing me to showcase my work in this outstanding chapbook series dedicated to Charles Bukowski!
What strange powers God has conferred upon all you people. I can only hope that you will use them for good.
Sometimes I can write well. But, holy shit, the lord does not give with both hands.
I’m so happy to see my review of “28 Years Later” (2025) appear today over at The Piker Press.
Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this fun creative community!
This is the face I make when the supermarket is out of liverwurst. Oh, the humanity.
If my name was Brad, I would totally learn to make cakes and things.
Because then I could open a bakery and call it “Baking Brad.”
IYKYK.
No, you are not suffering from the Mandela effect if you saw “Aliens” in the theater in 1986 and remember a really cool scene with some automatic remote sentry guns placed in a corridor — against which waves and waves of monsters launched an attack. And you aren’t insane either.
The scene was in the movie when it originally played in theaters, according to my sources on Reddit and Youtube. But it was not included on the VHS version (whether it’s referred to the “theatrical cut” or not).
Variations of the scene can be found in different subsequent cuts of the film, according to fans online — like the director’s cut or the special edition, or versions appearing on television.
Some include dialogue we remember from 1986. (“Next time they just walk right in,” or something like that.) And at least one includes the shots of the aliens being cut to pieces in the corridor. (Notably, the scene below does not.)
Anyway, I am linking to the totally awesome Alien Fire Team Elite on Youtube for the video. Semper fi, gentlemen.
I’m thrilled to share here that my poem “Autumn Girl” was published today in Alien Buddha Press’ new love-themed anthology, The Alien Buddha Loves You Too. The 281-page volume takes a truly irreverent look at romance: “love hurts. It stinks. It’s a river. It’s a battlefield. It’s often kind of gross, and it makes people do some truly diabolical things. Inside: graphic depictions of sex, murder, assault, revenge, yearning, and bodily fluids.”
Well … my piece isn’t quite as unconventional as all those things, but I am still really happy to be a part of this book. Alien Buddha Press is a publisher I’ve been meaning to approach for a long time — they are a first rate indie lit press and the venue for some incredibly talented voices. I’m grateful to Founding Editor Nicholas “Red” Redf for allowing me to join the community this way.
You can find the anthology on Amazon right here. If you’d care to peruse part of the book first, you can find a preview right here at the Alien Buddha Press website.
I’m honored today to see cc&d magazine publish my poem “The Beach House, Early Spring” in its latest anthology, The Storm Inside. The best way to read my poem (should you wish to) is to scroll down at the link below and click my name in the table of contents. 🙂
Or, if you would like to purchase a copy of the book, you can find it right here at Amazon.
Thanks once again to Editor in Chief Janet Kuypers for allowing me to see my work showcased in cc&d!
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 