Brenda Shaughnessy, author portrait
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Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet, mother, daughter, and teacher. She works at Rutgers University-Newark, and lives in West Orange, NJ. She was educated in NYC and Santa Cruz, CA, having grown up in Thousand Oaks, CA after an infancy in Wollaston, MA and Okinawa, where she was born at Kadena Air Base Hospital, United States Air Force, in 1970, to mother Mitsuko Higa, daughter of Yoshimoto Ushi and Higa Denko, of Yomitan.
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Books

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Books for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

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Celebrating National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month and Penguin Random House Education is celebrating poets and the poems they craft. This list includes works of poetry from American and World poets that depict history, reflect personal experience, discuss topics of race and culture, feminism, LGBTQIA+ lives, immigration, family, and more, and ranges from Shakespeare to the 20th

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