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Dear Waffle House,

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If lovin’ you is wrong, then I don’t wanna to be right.

Sincerely,

Eric Robert Nolan

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Throwback Thursday: Hanging with the NoVaBuds.

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Occoquan Bay/Potomac River, 2015. I miss this lady — and her husband and sons. One of the coolest families I have ever met.

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Spillwords Press Publishes My Prose Poem, “Her Smile Was Silver Jupiter”

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The really cool people at Spillwords Press today featured my prose poem, “Her Smile Was Silver Jupiter.”

You can find it right here.

Thanks once again to Chief Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to be a part of this terrific community of readers and writers.

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The Stray Branch publishes three of my poems and six of my photos.

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I am so grateful to have three poems and six photos published in the Spring/Summer 2026 Issue of The Stray Branch. Despite some challenging circumstances surrounding her family’s health, Editor and Founder Debbie Berk today released the new installment of this outstanding independent literature magazine. (I know I am not alone in admiring Ms. Berk’s extraordinary commitment to the creative community that she established.)

The poems selected were “imagine the moon as companion,” “An Altogether Different Slumber” and “Blue Wolves Move in an Indigo Wood.” The photos were a selection of black-and-white shots that I took throughout Salem and Roanoke, Virginia.

You can purchase a copy of the magazine right here:

The Stray Branch — Spring/Summer 2026

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The Bards Initiative and Poets Anonymous select my poem for annual Gathering anthology.

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I am so happy to report here that my short nature poem, “The Mountain at Summer, Seen from a Passing Car,” will be included in the upcoming Gathering poetry anthology. Gathering is an outstanding annual collection developed by Poets Anonymous and The Bards Initiative, and published by Local Gems Press.

The book is slated for an August 26th release, following a book launch that day at 7:30 PM at the Courtyard Dulles Airport Chantilly, 3935 Centerview Drive, Chantilly VA 20151. (The doors open at 7 PM.)

For preorder information, please see the Local Gems Press website here.

I am quite grateful to The Bards Initiative President James P. Wagner, along with Lesley Tyson and Megan McDonald of Poets Anonymous.

This will mark the 45th anthology where my writing has appeared.

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the air is burning

that is all

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Silent Spark Press will publish my poem “Where Would We Go?” in its upcoming Virginia Poetry anthology

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I am so happy to learn just now that Silent Spark Press will publish my love poem “Where Would We Go?” in its upcoming anthology of Virginia Poets.

The book, which is scheduled for an October 11 release, will be “a thoughtfully curated collection created for readers who appreciate regional literature, lyrical expression, and the enduring power of place. Featuring about 100 poems by Virginia poets, this anthology invites readers on a literary journey through the state’s history, landscapes, communities, and cultural identity.”

Virginia Poets can be preordered right here.

Thank you, Silent Spark Press, for allowing me to find my work published in such a meaningful tribute to the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Polka-dot beetle!!

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Polka-dotus beetlicus.

[Update — it has been brought to my attention that this creature is some iteration of Virginia’s most maligned invasive species, the spotted lantern fly.]

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Critterwatch 2026, Continued.

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Critters spotted:

  1. house finches
  2. robins
  3. ravens (they are seriously large birds, people, holy shit)
  4. sparrows (the kind with the striped faces, passer domesticus)
  5. northern mockingbirds (the kind with those little white racing stripes on the wings)
  6. the giant, creepy-ass turkey vultures are back! (Or, at least one was.)
  7. giant grasshoppers! (Probably Melanoplus differentialis.)
  8. ugh, earwigs
  9. green lacewings, which are actually really pretty insects

“Vulture,” Antoine-Louis Barye, 19th Century

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Allison’s Haiku

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A portraiture of

heterochromia are

your rococo eyes.

Photo credit: Socrasal, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons