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Down in the Dirt magazine publishes “The Rough, Violet Stone”

The August 2022 issue of Down in the Dirt has arrived, and in it you can find my poem “The Rough, Violet Stone.”  (Thanks, as always, to Editor Janet Kuypers for selecting my work for this outstanding literary magazine.)  The magazine’s theme this month is “My Name Is Equality.”

You can purchase a copy of the issue at Amazon right here, or you can read it online here at the Scars Publications website.



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Eric Robert Nolan reads “Haiku for a Coy-Eyed Girl”

Feign innocence, you
sly, lascivious dove, you
feral butterfly.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan



It’s all politics?

So my last letter to the editor (about mandatory school prayer) was distributed to a readership of about 470,000 readers.

Not the biggest number ever (and there’s no telling how many consumers actually read the letter), but it’s still a nice number.

Writing about politics or current events will garner you a far greater audience than poetry.



Eric Robert Nolan listed with the Poets & Writers Directory

I received a really nice honor yesterday, friends  — I am now listed in the Poets & Writers Directory.  This is a registry of over 10,000 published authors, maintained by Poets & Writers — America’s largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers.  You can find it right here.

Poets & Writers was founded in 1970.  Its mission is “to foster the professional development of poets and writers, to promote communication throughout the literary community, and to help create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public.”

I am quite grateful to Assistant Web Editor Francisco Marquez and his colleagues in New York City for assisting me during the application process.



Care to vote for Publication of the Month at Spillwords?

Reminder — today is the last day to vote for the Spillwords Press Awards for June 2022.  You can vote for both Author of the Month and Publication of the Month right here.  (As I shared here on Sunday, a poem of mine entitled “Where Would We Go?” is a nominee in the latter category.  I remain grateful if you’ve supported this piece so far.)



Do these five things.

Read.
Think.
Learn.
Question authority.
Question the consensus of your peer group.


Anyone who does NOT want you to do these things is not acting in your best interest.



The Richmond Times-Dispatch publishes my letter about mandatory school prayer.

I’m quite glad today to see my latest letter to the editor (about mandatory prayer in the public schools) published by The Richmond Times-Dispatch.   You can read it online right here.  

The Times-Dispatch is Virginia’s second largest newspaper, with a Sunday circulation of over 120,000 people. Thanks so much to its editorial staff for graciously allowing me to share my opinion there.



The Free Lance-Star publishes my letter to the editor about mandatory school prayer.

I’m so happy today to see my latest letter to the editor (about mandatory prayer in the public school classroom) appear in the pages of The Free Lance-StarYou can read it online right here.

In addition to being the newspaper for my college town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, The Free Lance-Star is a leading regional news source with more than 65,000 weekday readers.  I’m quite grateful to its editorial staff for allowing me to share my perspective there.



EgoPHobia features three of my poems.

What a great day, guys.  I’m honored to share that three of my poems appeared today in EgoPHobia — an independent Romanian e-journal dedicated to literature and philosophy.

The poems selected were “Industrial Revolution” (an early poem that I’d dedicated to my late father), “Ode” and “school shooter.”  All three pieces can be found at EgoPHobia right here.

I am quite grateful to Editor Stefan Bolea and the staff at EgoPHobia for allowing me to showcase my work in this important cultural resource for Eastern Europe.