Dark Horse in a Wild Goose Chase: Writing About Animals 6-Week Zoom Intensive, Starts Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Begins Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 Class will meet weekly via Zoom on Wednesdays, 6:00PM EST - 9:00PM EST. Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections of poetry, including If This Is the Age We End Discovery (March 2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. In 2023, she received a Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant to write The Atomic Sonnets, a full-length poetry collection based on her chapbook 20 Atomic Sonnets (Black Warrior Review, 2020). Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, among others. Her poem “Dancing with Kiko on the Moon” was recently featured in Tracy K. Smith’s The Slowdown. Why are writers so drawn to animals, and why do certain animals seem more symbolic than others? How can unr