Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is an award winning Liberian (African Diaspora) poet and writer, author of five books of poetry, and a Liberian civil war survivor who immigrated to the United States with her family in 1991. She is the author of five books of poetry: When the Wanderers Come Home, (University of Nebraska Press), Where the Road Turns (Autumn House Press), The River is Rising (Autumn House Press), Becoming Ebony, (Southern Illinois University Press) and Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (New Issues Press). She is also the author of a children’s book, In Monrovia, The River Visits the Sea. She is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University.

Recent Reviews/Scholarly Articles, Books/Interviews

https://nobelwomensinitiative.org/activist-spotlight-poet-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/patricia-jabbeh-wesley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZeb8b4qVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFLLrR06NSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmc9BPgH3UE

http://www.centreforafricanpoetry.org/magazine/interviews/patricia-jabbeh-wesley/

http://news.psu.edu/story/164679/2010/09/20/english-professors-poem-chosen-newspaper-column-and-magazine

http://mmofraghana.org/uncategorized/march-poem-get-out-of-here-boys/attachment/pjwesley

http://www.calvin.edu/news/2003-04/wesley.htm

https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/interdisciplinary_literary_studies/v016/16.2.eze.pdf

http://galatearesurrection24.blogspot.com/2015/05/two-books-by-patricia-jabbeh-wesley.html

http://www.halherring.com/files/PDF/Interviews/DreamingofHome.pdf

http://allafrica.com/stories/201410151808.html

http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/interview-with-liberian-prize-winning-poet-professor-patricia-jabbeh-wesley

http://www.iup.edu/magazine/page.aspx?id=43085

http://chqdaily.com/tag/patricia-jabbeh-wesley/

http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/29/bringing_poetry_home

http://www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw/files/writing/1921_c2ba4bfc.pdf

http://news.psu.edu/story/141051/2005/11/02/research/surviving-war-and-living-again