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.
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.
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.
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.)
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!
“The Sting” (1973) was probably the first movie I ever saw starring Robert Redford; it was a family favorite that made the rounds on television in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. (Though I will note here that “A Bridge Too Far” (1977), was also a family favorite, and also circulating on television in roughly the same time. Redford was in that film too.)
I remember asking my father how the ruse worked for that guy in the beginning who fell for the handkerchief trick. And I remember the movie’s theme music (Floyd Cramer’s “The Entertainer”) being an impossible earworm.
The next movie I saw starring Redford would probably be “All the President’s Men” (1976) when I was 14 or so; that was with my uncle John Muth, who had a wealth of such treasures on VHS. After that, it was the wonderful “Sneakers” (1992) in the theater in my college town of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
What I remember about Redford is just how goddam likeable he was in every role. It was uncanny — there was just something about him. It’s kind of like Carey Grant was so inexplicably suave, or how Harrison Ford always seems so sincere. I’ll bet something like that can’t be learned in an acting class.
These cell phone videos don’t really do the scene justice. They looked soooo cool soaring and circling as a flock. If you listen closely during the videos, you can hear them chirping.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 