Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers-Newark, and is the author of two collections of poems. Her third, Our Andromeda, will be out in 2012.

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Dec. 13 2011 6:33 AM"Inappropriate Dreams"Brenda Shaughnessy

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