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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.

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About LIZA WOLFF-FRANCIS

Liza Wolff-Francis was the 8th Poet Laureate of Carrboro, NC (2023-2025). She is a writer and poet with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has taught creative writing workshops for over a decade, and her prose and poetry have been widely published. It has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Cider Press Review, and Unbroken: Prose Poems, and the Phare. She has written poetry book reviews that have been published on Adroit, Compulsive Reader, LitPub, and in Tupelo Quarterly. She has a poetry chapbook titled “Language of Crossing” about the Mexico-U.S. border and a full-length book: “48 hours down the shore.” 

 

 

About BRENDA BEARDSLEY

Brenda Beardsley's work appears in Soundings East, The Bryant Literary Review, The Seneca Review, Paterson Literary Review, december, Fence, The American Journal of Poetry, among others. Nominated for Best New Poets 2023 by december for her poem, “Where the Redness Lives," her recognitions include finalist for the 2023-2024 Poetic Justice Institute Book Prize, finalist for december's 2022 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, semifinalist in the Purple Ink Chapbook Contest, winner of the 2020 MVICW Poetry Contest, and Honorable Mention in the 2023 Seneca Review Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College.

 

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