I just found out that my recent letter to the editor about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago was printed in the Sunday edition of New York’s Newsday. You can find it right here.
Thanks once again to Newsday’s editorial staff for allowing me to share my opinion through this outstanding regional newspaper.
I got some nice news a little while ago — Down in the Dirt magazine has included my poem “The Rough, Violet Stone” in its newest anthology, entitled The Final Frontier. (The poem previously appeared in the magazine’s August 2022 issue on the first of the month.)
You can buy a copy of the new book on Amazon at the link below:
Or, you can read the entire anthology online right here.
As always, I am grateful to Editor Janet Kuypers for selecting my work for both this outstanding magazine and its subsequent poetry collections.
The Piker Press today published my humorous nature poem, “An Ode to a Would-Be Swimmin’ Skink!” For those of you who are uninitiated, a skink is a little lightning-quick iridescent lizard common in the Southern United States.) And they even ran the photo I submitted with the poem! (I snapped a shot of the little fella off Shenandoah Avenue here in Roanoke, VA.)
You can find the poem and the photo right here. Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this wonderful community of readers, writers and artists.
Happy Monday! 🙂
I’m not sure how you arrived at that decision, but I wish you all luck with it. Even if you are getting too old for me.
YES, we looked like this — and we looked ****ing AWESOME. We need to bring this whole style BACK.
My only concern about this meme is that it originates from the 1980’s Memory Lane Facebook page, and I was dressing like this at Mary Washington College in the early 1990’s. Was I just behind the times? Maybe that was why people looked at me funny.
But I was big man on campus with these. I had people literally congratulating me on my pants — and that has not happened once since the 1990’s.
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.
Feign innocence, you
sly, lascivious dove, you
feral butterfly.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan
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.
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.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 