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SKY THEY YEARNED TO CALL MINE

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sky they yearned to call mine is a collaborative poetry collection by Brenda Beardsley and Liza Wolff-Francis, written as an exchange that reshapes grief in real time. Moving between the personal and the political, the poems respond to pandemic isolation, environmental destruction, war, and the threat to bodily autonomy. Together, the poets find endurance in attention, relationship, and the persistence of love amid collapse.

sky they yearned to call mine is a collaborative poetry collection by Brenda Beardsley and Liza Wolff-Francis, written as an exchange that reshapes grief in real time. Moving between the personal and the political, the poems respond to pandemic isolation, environmental destruction, war, and the threat to bodily autonomy. Together, the poets find endurance in attention, relationship, and the persistence of love amid collapse.

About LIZE WOLFF-FRANCIS

Liza Wolff-Francis is a poet and writer with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She was co-director for the 2014 Austin International Poetry Festival and a member of the 2008 Albuquerque Poetry Slam Team. She has an ekphrastic poem posted in Austin's Blanton Art Museum by El Anatsui's sculpture "Seepage" and her work has most recently appeared in Edge, Twenty, unseenfiction.com, Border Senses, and on various blogs. As a social worker, she has worked with Spanish speaking immigrant populations for twenty years. She wrote the play "Border Rising" from interviews with undocumented Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles. She currently lives in Albuquerque, NM.

 

About BRENDA BEARDSLEY

Brenda Beardsley is a poet whose work appears in The Prose Poem, Seneca Review, Fence, The American Journal of Poetry, Permafrost, and The Paterson Literary Review, among others, and in anthologies including The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press) and Granite State Pandemic Poems. She is the winner of the 2020 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Poetry Contest and has been a finalist for the Hunger Mountain Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, december’s Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Poetic Justice Institute Book Prize. Her hybrid manuscript an anecdotal history of eugenics is forthcoming from Querencia Press. With Liza Wolff-Francis, she is a semifinalist for the 2024 Donna Wolf Palacio Prize for their collaborative manuscript sky they yearned to call mine (forthcoming from Unsolicited Press). Beardsley earned her MFA from Goddard College, is a former Editorial Director of Clockhouse, and writes about grief, disability, caregiving, the environment, and social justice.

 

  • Genre: Poetry
    ISBN: 978-1-969421-10-5
    Publication: NOVEMBER 17, 2026