24PearlStreet Workshops

Elizabeth Bradfield Beastly: Animals as Poetic Source and Subject for Poems Poetry February 22 to February 26, 2016 Tuition: $500 Class Size: 12 Session: winter Level: 1 week asynchronous workshop

Many of us are moved by our time outside, by the non-humans we encounter. But how do we write about those experiences in ways that are full, accurate, and surprising? In this week-long course we’ll study how others have written animals and use those models as templates for our own work. We’ll skirt the treacherous terrain of personification and nudge up to sentimentality (but not enter it); we’ll make facts sing without bending them and we’ll rage, rage as necessary.

Biography

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of five collections, most recently Toward Antarctica and Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. Cascadia: A Field Guide Through Art, Ecology and Poetry will be published in 2023. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and her honors include the Audre Lorde Prize and a Stegner Fellowship. Founder of Broadsided Press, Bradfield works as a naturalist/guide and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. www.ebradfield.com