Food, a nice place to live in a city that I love, a wonderful girl and loads of good friends. A good portion of the world is not so lucky.
Perspective is a good thing.
Eschewing the Oxford comma — that’s something else I’m thankful for.
Tag Archives: Virginia
Hot off the press from Ireland — The Galway Review 12.
I am currently enjoying The Galway Review’s annual anthology, The Galway Review 12 — which includes my poem, “The Beach House, Early Spring.” (The piece was published online by the magazine in October 2023.)
This really is one of the nicest honors I’ve received as a poet. The Galway Review is the city’s leading literary magazine, with more than a half a million readers worldwide, and I was included along with just seven other poets to see my work appear in this annual publication. I remain quite grateful to the magazine’s editors for selecting my poem.
If you’d like to peruse the anthology, you can read it online for free right here.
“Scattered like seeds” in Charlottesville, VA
Shared a little guerilla poetry in Charlottesville, Virginia this week with poetry mini-books, designed and produced by the fondly remembered, late Robert Hansen at Poems-for-All.
Photo collage from the “Bulletin of the Normal School for Women, Fredericksburg, Virginia, April, 1920”
“The Normal School for Women” later became Mary Washington College. There is a pernicious rumor going around that it was subsequently named “The University of Mary Washington,” but we all know that couldn’t be right.
Anyway, you can view and enlarge this image here at Wikimedia Commons.
The Patrick Henry, Roanoke, Virginia, February 2024
Formerly The Patrick Henry Hotel, it opened in 1925. It’s got its own share of ghost stories, and one of them is pretty intense.
It kinda looks like it could be haunted, you know what I mean?
Let’s Party on Valentine’s Day! (Troutville, VA)
Just a reminder — if you want to plan something special for Valentine’s Day, a friend of mine is helping to organize a really fun event in Troutville, Virginia. Details below; you can buy tickets right here.
Benny Marconi’s is the best pizza place in Roanoke.
Look at the size of that slice. (I placed it next to that full-seized coffeepot for reference.) And it doesn’t cost much either.
Granted, there is nothing quite like a slice of New York pizza, but this is a superlative effort.
Are you looking for a fun Valentine’s Day event in the Troutville, VA, area? :-)
An alumnus and good friend of mine is helping to organize a party at the Pomegranate Gathering Place at 106 Stoney Battery Road. Details are below; you can buy tickets right here.
Poetry and commentary, 2024
Just FYI, if you’d like to keep track of my mad scribblings, I started a new page here at the blog for 2024 poetry and commentary.
Impspired Volume 13 features three of my poems.
Impspired in the United Kingdom released its 13th volume today, featuring three of my poems: “At the Coffee Shop,” “Autumn Girl” and “A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse.” (These pieces were previously published online in Impspired Issue 26.)
You can purchase a paperback copy of Impspired Volume Thirteen right here over at Amazon.
As always, I am grateful to Editor Steve Cawte for allowing me to see my work published by such an outstanding literary magazine!
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 
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