The past year was the best ever for poetry and commentary, with publications in the United States, Britain, Ireland, Germany, India and Bangladesh — along with a short story publication in Chile.
You can find all the links to my 2025 poetry and commentary at the link below. Thanks for coming along for the ride. 🙂
What would later become Mary Washington College.
2025.
Signing a book for a friend. 🙂
I’m ecstatic! The Galway Review today published my poem “Where Would We Go?” — and also selected it for its next anthology, The Galway Review 14.
You can find the poem at The Galway Review online right here.
The anthology will be released in April 2026; I’ll post purchasing details when they become available.
The Galway Review is the leading literary magazine for Galway, the fourth largest city in the Republic of Ireland. It features contemporary reviews, fiction, non-fiction, poetry and photography, and seeks to publish work that is “beautiful and different.”
I am once again grateful to Managing Editor Ndrek Gjini and his colleagues for allowing me to see my work showcased by this important literary resource for Northern Europe and beyond.
So here’s the great news at which I’ve been hinting to my friends. Cooch Behar Magazine in India has invited me to co-author a short poetry anthology with Editor Sourav Sarkar.
This really is an outstanding honor for me, as I greatly respect Mr. Sarkar’s work, as well as his ongoing commitment to the international independent literature community. I am very happy that I will be able to see my writing appear alongside his own.
Thank you, Cooch Behar Magazine!
I will post more details as they develop.
Wonderful news. 🙂 Local Gems Press has selected my poem “The Secretary” to appear in its upcoming anthology, The Eagle and The Maple. This will be a special collection highlighting the work of American and Canadian writers — I’ll be delighted to see my writing showcased alongside that of our neighbors to the north.
The Eagle and The Maple is available for preorder here at the Local Gems Press website.
Thank you, Maddie McGivney and James P. Wagner, for permitting me yet again to see my work in another quality literary anthology from Local Gems Press.
Circa 1992. With College Girlfriend, no less.
The young lady pictured was always a sublimely cool individual, so I will spare her the ignominy of naming her here. (We protect the innocent at this blog.)
Thanks to MWC Alum Rick Slagle for the photo!
I am delighted today to learn that my poetry has been published in three new anthologies by Cooch Behar Magazine in India.
My poem “she” appeared in the new Illusion anthology, my poem “March Midnight Window” appeared in the Longing anthology, and my poem “The Mountain At Summer, Seen From Passing Car” appeared in the Joy anthology. You can purchase the respective volumes here, here and here over at Amazon.
Thanks, as always, to Editor Sourav Sarkar for allowing me to see my work appear in such outstanding publications!
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 