ls it too early to get into the spirit of Halloween? Spillwords Press today published my zombie story, “The Siege of Fort Buzzard.”
Thanks once again to Chief Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to be a part of this fun creative community!
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The Piker Press publishes my horror tale, “The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie”
What happens when a jaded publishing heiress comes face to face with Satan himself?
You can witness the confrontation in “The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie,” published today on the front page of The Piker Press:
“The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie”
Thanks yet again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this rewarding creative community. 🙂
The Argyle Literary Magazine publishes four of my poems.
I am absolutely honored today to see The Argyle Literary Magazine publish four of my poems: “Quiet White Dog Short Poem,” “My Mother’s Apartment,” “March Midnight Window” and “Sullen Robin Haiku.” You can find them at the link below:
Four Poems by Eric Robert Nolan
The Argyle is a superb eclectic online quarterly that strives for “an immersive experience of words and images that feeds the mind, stirs the soul, and disturbs the quiet of blank spaces.” I am grateful to Founder & Editor-in-Chief David Estringel, MFA for allowing me to join in its literary tradition.
September 11, 2001.
We were a different country then: wounded, but undivided; scarred, but undeterred; enraged, but not at one another. The America that rallied and unified in the wake of the terror attacks seems as vanished now as the Towers themselves.
We were a nation of neighbors, as though the dust thrust up from a burning New York City had cleared to reveal an even greater Republic. We huddled together under the smoke blowing up from the charnel pit, then reached to lift one another to higher ground. We bolstered one another with whatever words we could find, in the interminable spaces after our dead had fallen silent, after the soot in the emptied streets had muted even our own footfalls.
We rose up as one to retaliate — and struck out across the world with a single fist. We were more than a superpower, more than an aggrieved people. We were these United States.
I want to believe that we can be that country — those people — again.
That is why today, fully two decades later, I will picture who we were. And I will tell myself, never forget.
— Eric Robert Nolan, originally printed in Newsday, September 11, 2021
In Virginia, everyone is your friend.
Complete strangers will give you huge smile and a fist bump and say, “Keep on rockin’, Baby.”
I swear to you, New York is not like this.
I indeed WILL keep on rockin’, Sir. Thank you.
Chandelier e-zine publishes “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves”
I’m so happy to tell you here that my poem “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves” was published today in Chandelier e-zine.
Chandelier is a superb online magazine published twice a year by Bulb Culture Collective. It features previously published writing that reflects each issue’s theme; the Summer 2025 issue’s theme is Blazing.
I am grateful to Editors L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda for deciding that my poem, with its various depictions of burning, was a good fit.
Like a great storyteller once wrote, “It was a pleasure to burn.” 🙂
The Gathering 2025 and the Bards Poetica anthologies are now available at Amazon.
Care to lay hands on some poetry for the cooler days ahead? Two new anthologies from Local Gems Press are now available at Amazon.
Gathering 2025 can be found here. (If you happen to order a copy, please check out my poem, “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival.”)
Bards Poetica can be found right here. (If you order a copy of this book, I hope you’ll enjoy my poem, “Confession.”)
Have a great weekend! 🙂
BUK100 Issue #4 includes “Confession” and a photo of mine.
I’m honored to share here that Newington Blue Press in Germany will publish my poem “Confession,” along with at least one of my photos, in the upcoming BUK100 Issue #4 — the Forever Young Edition.
Preorder information can be found here.
Thanks once again to Publishing Editor Matthias Kruger for allowing me to showcase my work in this outstanding chapbook series dedicated to Charles Bukowski!
Kurse you, Kroger!
This is the face I make when the supermarket is out of liverwurst. Oh, the humanity.
“Autumn Girl” appears in The Alien Buddha Loves You Too anthology.
I’m thrilled to share here that my poem “Autumn Girl” was published today in Alien Buddha Press’ new love-themed anthology, The Alien Buddha Loves You Too. The 281-page volume takes a truly irreverent look at romance: “love hurts. It stinks. It’s a river. It’s a battlefield. It’s often kind of gross, and it makes people do some truly diabolical things. Inside: graphic depictions of sex, murder, assault, revenge, yearning, and bodily fluids.”
Well … my piece isn’t quite as unconventional as all those things, but I am still really happy to be a part of this book. Alien Buddha Press is a publisher I’ve been meaning to approach for a long time — they are a first rate indie lit press and the venue for some incredibly talented voices. I’m grateful to Founding Editor Nicholas “Red” Redf for allowing me to join the community this way.
You can find the anthology on Amazon right here. If you’d care to peruse part of the book first, you can find a preview right here at the Alien Buddha Press website.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 