I am honored today to see American Poet publish three of my poems: “Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen,” “Like White Plumeria Petal” and “Hardy Orchids Haiku.”
Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Faiyaj Islam Fahim, for allowing me to see my work at this outstanding website devoted to American Poets.
The poems were “At the Coffee Shop,” “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves” and “Fawning Haiku.” You can find them right here.
Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Faiyaj Islam Fahim, for featuring my work at this outstanding literary resource for Europe and beyond.
Look at the lovely presents my fellow author friend gave me for The Feast of Tabernacles.
The candle actually smells like lavender.
I’m thrilled to share here that a poem of mine will be included in this year’s installment of Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology, Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025.
The poem is “This Windy Morning,” and I am grateful to Maddie McGivney and Bards President James P. Wagner for letting me join the holiday fun. 🙂
You can preorder a copy of the book, if you wish, right here at the Local Gems Press website.
I am honored to have two of my poems published today in the October 2025 issue of All Your Poems Anthology. The poems selected were “Like White Plumeria Petal” and “Fawning Haiku.”
If you would like to purchase a copy of the October issue, you can find it here at Amazon, here at Barnes & Noble or here at Apple Books.
I am grateful to Editor and Publisher Storm M. Grayson for accepting my work for such a wonderful indie lit magazine.
I rise with an alarming CRACK!
Is it my knees or is it my back?
As for why my feet are raging —
these are mysteries of aging.
If you happened to enjoy my zombie story over at Spillwords Press, it’s been nominated for Publication of the Month for September 2025.
You can vote for the story right here — just bear in mind that you must register with Spillwords Press first.
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Well, cool. 🙂
My zombie tale, “The Siege of Fort Buzzard,” was nominated for Publication of the Month for September over at Spillwords Press. (The online magazine published the story on September 21.)
If you enjoyed the story and would like to vote for me, you may do so right here at this link.
Recall, please, that you would need to be registered to vote. (There is no cost to do that.) If you haven’t already registered, you can do that easily right here.
Thank you so much to all who read the story and nominated me! 🙂
Photo credit: Mobilus In Mobili, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
I’m delighted to share here that the Poetry Hall quarterly bilingual journal once again translated my poetry for its global readership of Chinese readers. The poems selected were “Ode to a New Black Ball Point Pen,” “Nihilist Night Haiku” and “Hardy Orchids Haiku.”
You can find Issue 29 right here over at Amazon.
Poetry Hall is a distinguished international literary magazine in which poems appear in English along with their Chinese translations, side by side. As always, I am grateful to Editor-in-Chief Xu Yingcai and translator Zhang Ning for allowing me to showcase my work within its pages.
At right is the Taubman Museum of Art.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 