Originally appeared in ImageUpdate, a publication of IMAGE Journal.  The Lamentations of “Indian Education” Report to the Department of the Interior by Diane Glancy Diane Glancy’s new book of poetry Report to the Department of the Interior reads less like a collection and more like a path walked through the harsh landscape-story of “Indian education,” a governmental and missionary project to …

Originally appeared in ImageUpdate, a publication of IMAGE Journal.  Wonder Rooms by Allison Funk Let’s start here: “bestiary” is a wonderful word. To begin with the superficial, it is fun to say, beautiful in the mouth. Now deeper: the medieval makers of bestiaries, cataloguing animals both real and mythical, were mixers—art-with-text; mermaids-with-marmots; the scientific impulse to …

Originally appeared in ImageUpdate, a publication of IMAGE Journal.  Winged: New Writing on Bees edited by Melissa Reeser Poulin and Jill McKenna Reed “A single bee’s life’s work amounts to a quarter teaspoon of finished honey,” writes Craig Goodworth in his prose-poem “The Hive.” “The Bulgarian army, having run short of medical supplies, dressed wounds with …