by Brenda Beardsley

Excerpt from Anecdotal History of Eugenics

Brenda Beardsley's work appears or is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, The Last Milkweed Poetry Anthology (Tupelo), DASH, Permafrost, december, Fence, Fence Steaming, The American Journal of Poetry, The Examined Life Journal (University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine), Pentimento, and wordgathering, as well as anthologized in COVID Spring, Granite State Pandemic Poems. Nominated for Best New Poets 2023, an Honorable Mention in the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards Winner, finalist for the 2022 december poetry prize, she is winner of the 2020 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Poetry Contest, and a two-time finalist for the Hunger Mountain Ruth Stone Poetry Prize. Beardsley holds an MFA from Goddard College. brendabeardsley.org

 

Originally appeared in the online supplement to the Beyond Category issue 53.2