Then check out Local Gems Press’ new Halloween-themed anthology — Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025. You can order it from Amazon at the link below:
(If you do purchase the book, I hope that you’ll peruse my poem about ghosts around Roanoke, “This Windy Morning.”)
I am honored today to see American Poet publish three of my poems: “Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen,” “Like White Plumeria Petal” and “Hardy Orchids Haiku.”
Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Faiyaj Islam Fahim, for allowing me to see my work at this outstanding website devoted to American Poets.
The poems were “At the Coffee Shop,” “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves” and “Fawning Haiku.” You can find them right here.
Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Faiyaj Islam Fahim, for featuring my work at this outstanding literary resource for Europe and beyond.
I’m thrilled to share here that a poem of mine will be included in this year’s installment of Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology, Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025.
The poem is “This Windy Morning,” and I am grateful to Maddie McGivney and Bards President James P. Wagner for letting me join the holiday fun. 🙂
You can preorder a copy of the book, if you wish, right here at the Local Gems Press website.
I am honored to have two of my poems published today in the October 2025 issue of All Your Poems Anthology. The poems selected were “Like White Plumeria Petal” and “Fawning Haiku.”
If you would like to purchase a copy of the October issue, you can find it here at Amazon, here at Barnes & Noble or here at Apple Books.
I am grateful to Editor and Publisher Storm M. Grayson for accepting my work for such a wonderful indie lit magazine.
I rise with an alarming CRACK!
Is it my knees or is it my back?
As for why my feet are raging —
these are mysteries of aging.
If you happened to enjoy my zombie story over at Spillwords Press, it’s been nominated for Publication of the Month for September 2025.
You can vote for the story right here — just bear in mind that you must register with Spillwords Press first.
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I’m delighted to share here that the Poetry Hall quarterly bilingual journal once again translated my poetry for its global readership of Chinese readers. The poems selected were “Ode to a New Black Ball Point Pen,” “Nihilist Night Haiku” and “Hardy Orchids Haiku.”
You can find Issue 29 right here over at Amazon.
Poetry Hall is a distinguished international literary magazine in which poems appear in English along with their Chinese translations, side by side. As always, I am grateful to Editor-in-Chief Xu Yingcai and translator Zhang Ning for allowing me to showcase my work within its pages.
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!
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. 🙂
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 