# Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
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patricia jabbeh wesley is an award-winning Liberan (African Diaspora) poet and writer and Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University. She is a Liberian Civil War survivor who immigrated to the United States with her family in 1991, and the author of five books of poetry.
== Biography ==
Jabbeh Wesley was born in Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia.
Homing Instinct: African-Born Poet Keeps Returning To The Theme Of Home
In 1991, the brutal civil war in Liberia caused poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and her family to emigrate to the United States. The war splits her story nearly in two: To escape her home country, Jabbeh Wesley has said, she literally had to walk over dead bodies.
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Rasa shares a theory about book series. Jeremy asks a vexing question about smelling flowers. In between, they discuss "Poem Written from a Single Snapshot" by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.
Prosody: Prosody featuring poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley talks about her work with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. Originally aired 11/28/06
Esther Belin in Conversation with Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
This week, guest editor Esther Belin speaks with poet and scholar Patricia Jabbeh Wesley. Although Belin’s and Wesley’s homelands are far from each other—Wesley’s in Liberia and Belin’s in Diné bikéyah of the Navajo people—they share a deep commitment to their roles as storytellers, and their writi…
A Conversation with Liberian-born Poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a professor of English at Penn State Altoona.
Conversations with African Poets and Writers
On the fifth episode of From the Catbird Seat, Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Ghanaian poet and editor Kwame Dawes about the February 2017 “Conversations with African Poets and Writers: African Poetry Book Fund Spotlight” event at the Library of Congress. Dawes discussess the formation of t…
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