Today, checking out recent posts on Never Neutral, I saw that Ernesto Priego has just had a fine essay on poetry published at Boy Bedlam Review. I went over to read it, and, to my surprise, saw that one of my own essays, Wastelands and Bog People, has been published there too, in the same Words section where Ernesto's piece appears. The editor had approached me about this essay (about T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, and the tradition of "influence" in English poetry) and we had corresponded about it quite a while ago, but I'd never heard that it was up. Not only up, but with a terrific illustration!
If you haven't looked at Boy Bedlam Review, please do: published under the motto "Arts and Ideas for the 21st century" it's an exciting, fresh, and very ambitious journal/review, taking advantage of the full-color capability of the web with a magnificent range of artwork that accompanies the selections of essays, criticism, and commentary on subjects from contemporary literature to science to religion. And all is not confined to the static page: while you're there, you might take a few minutes to view The Odyssey, a completely current video look at war, homecoming, and the aftermath.
I'm pleased to be in this company.
