“The Normal School for Women” later became Mary Washington College. There is a pernicious rumor going around that it was subsequently named “The University of Mary Washington,” but we all know that couldn’t be right.
Anyway, you can view and enlarge this image here at Wikimedia Commons.
Just FYI, if you’d like to keep track of my mad scribblings, I started a new page here at the blog for 2024 poetry and commentary.
Impspired in the United Kingdom released its 13th volume today, featuring three of my poems: “At the Coffee Shop,” “Autumn Girl” and “A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse.” (These pieces were previously published online in Impspired Issue 26.)
You can purchase a paperback copy of Impspired Volume Thirteen right here over at Amazon.
As always, I am grateful to Editor Steve Cawte for allowing me to see my work published by such an outstanding literary magazine!
Got my first rejection letter from a publication in China.
Hey — it’s a “trying milestone.” I failed, but I tried something new for the first time.
Like when submitted to The New Yorker or to The Irish Times.
I’m honored to share here that Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 29 includes my tribute to my late friend and colleague, Dennis Williamson. (Dennis was also known by his nom de plume, Dennis Villelmi.) The journal originally published the essay online on October 19th.)
Lothlorien Poetry Journal features free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction; the theme for Volume 29 is Amplified Voices in the Murmurs of Infinity. I am so pleased to be published beside 71 renowned poets and authors, and I’m grateful to Editor Strider Marcus Jones for accepting my essay.
You can purchase Volume 29 right here at Lulu.
I wish all of you the best in peace, prosperity and happiness in 2024.
Merry Christmas, all. 🙂
(This poem is often also called “‘Twas the Night before Christmas.”
I’m kinda like Herman Munster crossed with Conan O’Brien.
I am so pleased to see a trio of my poems appear today over in the pages of The Piker Press. The set of three is entitled “Three Dreamers,” and the poems are as follows: “The Writer,” “The Secretary” and “The Bureaucrat.”
I wrote “Three Dreamers” very early in my career as a poet, and they were meant as a sort of creative experiment. I wanted to see whether I could characterize three different fictional characters who have relationships with one another. (The people portrayed here were imagined as office co-workers.)
Thanks once again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share my voice at The Piker Press!
I hope you will all join me in congratulating Adele Evershed as Spillwords Press Author of the Month for November 2023.
(Thanks also to those of you who voted for me, as I was a nominee as well. I am flattered if you did so.) 🙂
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 
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