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.
Tag Archives: Mary Washington College
Lothlorien Poetry Journal prints my tribute to Dennis Williamson in Volume 29.
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.
Happy New Year!!
I wish all of you the best in peace, prosperity and happiness in 2024.
“A Visit From St. Nicholas,” by Clement Clarke Moore (read by Eric Robert Nolan)
Merry Christmas, all. 🙂
(This poem is often also called “‘Twas the Night before Christmas.”
New-Haircut Nolan sez hello.
I’m kinda like Herman Munster crossed with Conan O’Brien.
The Piker Press publishes “Three Dreamers”
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!
Adele Evershed named Spillwords Press Author of the Month.
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.) 🙂
Three of my poems are featured in Impspired Issue 26.
I am absolutely honored today to see three of my poems published in Issue 26 of Impspired in the United Kingdom. The three poems are “At the Coffee Shop,” “Autumn Girl” and “A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse.”
You can find all three poems right here. The print edition will be released at the end of January.
Thanks once again to Editor Steve Cawte for allowing me to see my work appear in such an outstanding independent literature magazine!
The (Renovated) Arena Stage.
So this is the Arena Stage in Washington D.C., these days. I saw a play there as a college student in 1994 or so. (There was a major renovation and expansion project since my days at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.)
I don’t even remember which production we saw, to be honest with you. (I’m pretty sure it was Shakespeare.) But I remember that the trip seemed exciting. Fredericksburg really was just a mid-sized town back in the 1990’s. Going into Washington D.C. at night with about 100 other theater students to see a live production felt like a pretty big deal.
And the trip and the show were a blast.
Photo credit: Ron Cogswell, 2011
Photo credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTAobYSR5k&list=FLEjGv3WZw134CN_yJVg3_Hg&index=1143
Eric Robert Nolan nominated for Spillwords Press “Author of the Month” for November.
I’m honored to share here that some nice person in the Spillwords Press community has nominated me for “Author of the Month” for November 2023. Spillwords Press has of course published a number of my poems — most recently they featured my short poem, “Blue.”
If you would like to vote for me, you may do so right here.
Voting takes place from now to November 29th. (Please note that you would need to register and log in if you wish to vote.)
Thanks! 🙂
