Articles by Eric Robert Nolan

Short

• Shine Now, Fiercely Forever (December 10, 2018) cover story science fiction

• At the End of the World, My Daughter Wept Metal (February 19, 2024) cover story speculative fiction

  The currency of vast "progress"...

• The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie (September 15, 2025) cover story fiction

  Temptations come in many forms...

Poem

• This Windy Morning (January 14, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...If that faultless chorus should never see heaven..."

• Roanoke Summer Midnight (February 18, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...Where the Shenandoahs' beryl falls to black, ultramarine to onyx..."

• Confession (April 8, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...Lust in the lexicon..."

• My Mother's Apartment (May 6, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...exactly..."

• Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks (July 22, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...to descend the fathoms now made shining canyons..."

• hens staring upward (August 26, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...in the various safe and certain places free of sadness..."

• All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves (September 23, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...Take my hand, my friend, and smile..."

• Delaware Sheets (October 14, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...gentle, blessed by the sun..."

• November, Blue Ridge Mountains, 1992 (November 18, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...Will any mountain ever let me dream again..."

• As Silver as the Stars You Tried To Rival (December 16, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...frigid, frigid like a still photo and its forever frozen face there..."

• Lilac, Wine, Pomegranate, Black (January 13, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "This new mountain night..."

• Lie to Me, But Brightly (February 10, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "...In this early winter air, her whispers are verdicts..."

• March Midnight Window (March 23, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "...In blackness, an indistinct day is made another..."

• Not of Byzantium (April 20, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "...Exceeding empires, exceeding even Elysium..."

• Ode (May 25, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "...Delight me for a while."

• Bumblebee (August 24, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "...he inventories dandelions with prodding, plush black legs..."

• prayer upon an empty hilltop (September 14, 2020) poem rhymed

  "...the moon will beam camaraderie..."

• Contagion Is a Despot Poet (October 19, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "...each arriving low, in permanent cursive..."

• Turning 41 (January 4, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...my future lay in neatly mapped seas..."

• Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen (February 1, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...glissading sable scars of curling script..."

• Imagine the Moon as Companion (April 19, 2021) cover story poem unrhymed

  Welcome to the Piker Press 19th Anniversary Issue. Thank you to all the writers and other artists and readers for making this possible.

• Lying Close (March 28, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...Her soft voice Is the cry of the single quail at dusk..."

• school shooter (April 25, 2022) cover story poem unrhymed

  "...Remember when we first saw her..."

• When I Meet the Devil (May 23, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...Not for the false compliments that slide off his baroque tongue..."

• An Ode to a Would-Be Swimmin' Skink (August 8, 2022) poem rhymed

  "...don't cool off in my drink..."

• An Ode for Fellow Replicants (September 5, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "What if the Internet is an android's dream..."

• Quiet White Dog Short Poem (October 3, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...as white as the moon..."

• Her Smile Was Silver Jupiter (November 28, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "It was a mad and spinning world in which you met her..."

• Where Would We Go? (December 26, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...The mountains will not know our names..."

• The Rough, Violet Stone (January 23, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...lines that have changed their direction, like dissident travelers at crossroads..."

• An Altogether Different Slumber (March 13, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "I dream in ones and zeros, in an ease of dormancy..."

• Blue Wolves Move in an Indigo Wood (April 17, 2023) poem unrhymed

  Eric Robert Nolan's reporting, commentary, and creative work have been featured throughout 40 print and online publications in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Australia and India.

• Autumn Girl (September 4, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...all of every autumn gathers up in you..."

• Three Dreamers (December 4, 2023) poem unrhymed

  Images of people who worked together in an office...

• Iphigenia's Womb (March 18, 2024) poem

  "...every ship failed to sail Against Troy..."

• Blue (April 8, 2024) poem

  "...the backyard of my boyhood home..."

• Like White Plumeria Petal (June 24, 2024) poem

  "...you are with me, observing the glowing morning..."

Essay

• Requiescat In Pace, Dennis Williamson (February 13, 2023) essay eulogy

  "I lost my best friend in the world of writing, Dennis Williamson..."

Opinion

• The message of <i>Civil War</i> (2024) in six words: ‘Kids, don't try this at home.’ (June 3, 2024) movie review

  A review of Alex Garland's dystopian future movie: "Civil War."

• All Aboard the Rage Train: a Review of <i>28 Years Later</i> (August 18, 2025) movie review

  Nolan reviews the 2025 film, "28 Years Later."

Art

• Hungry Butterfly (September 16, 2024) art

  Ketchup? Really?

• Fiery Foliage (October 14, 2024) art

  The beauty of autumn colors...

• Darkened Neighborhood (November 11, 2024) art

  Darkness in day...

• Hungry Cat (December 9, 2024) art

  Be charitable when shopping...

• Admiral David G. Farragut (January 6, 2025) art

  A statue and his friends...