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Why are they so feared and misunderstood? If a bird popularity contest were held, Turkey Vultures would not fare very well. A spooky bird contest, on the other hand? Dead winner.

In late 2020 I’m spending mornings masked, working in a lab in the University of Montana Zoological Museum. The museum houses research collections of natural artifacts like skins and skeletons. But behind the scenes museum staff tend a single living collection: a colony of dermestid beetles, the meticulous scavengers that scour flesh from bones before a skeleton can be installed in the museum.

Livingston, Montana-based poet Michael Earl Craig (“Earl”) reads a poem from ‘Iggy Horse’ (Wave Poetry).

Livingston, Montana-based poet Michael Earl Craig (“Earl”) reads a poem from ‘Iggy Horse’ (Wave Poetry).

At Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, I saw an Osprey dive into the deepest section of white water and emerge with nothing to show for its effort, and then retreat to a cottonwood branch to watch for another opportunity in the dark, boiling water.

As I watched Rob Domenech, executive director of the Raptor View Research Institute, and his research biologist Brian Busby carefully load the three chicks onto the lift, and heard Harriet’s chirps of protest from above, I considered the importance of this work.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with with Alicia Elliott, an established writer of non-fiction, about her debut novel, ‘And Then She Fell’ (Dutton Books, 2023).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Erin Pringle, Spokane, Washington-based author of ‘Unexpected Weather Events’ (Awst Press).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet D.M. Bradford, author of the collection ‘Bottom Rail on Top’ (Brick Books), a kind of archives-powered unmooring of American histories of antebellum Black life and emancipation.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Livingston, Montana-based poet (and former Montana Poet Laureate) Michael Earl Craig, author of ‘Iggy Horse’ (Wave Poetry).