Monday Must Read! Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: When the Wanderers Come Home
This week’s Must Read is Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of When the Wanderers Come Home( 2016), Where the Road Turns (2010), The River Is Rising (2007), Crab Orchard Series in Poetry–winner Becoming Ebony (2003), and Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (1998),
Patricia was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and raised there and in her father’s home village of Tugbakeh, where she learned to speak Grebo in addition to English, the national language. In 1991, Wesley immigrated with her family to southern Michigan to escape the Liberian civil war. She earned a BA at the University of Liberia, an MS at Indiana University, and a PhD at Western Michigan University.Her poems have also been featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.”
Vulnerable in their combination of grief and levity, Wesley’s poems deal with family, community, and war. “What I try to do in my poetry is to show that the artist does not exist in isolation from his surroundings,” Wesley has stated in interviews.
Patricia teaches as an Associate Professor at Penn State University.
Visit Patricia’s Wesbites:
Author Website:
Poetry for Peace
http://poetryforpeace.wordpress.com
Buy Patricia’s Beautiful Books!
When the Wanderers Come Home
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/When-the-Wanderers-Come-Home,677245.aspx
Where the Road Turns
http://www.autumnhouse.org/product/where-the-road-turns-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
The River Is Rising
Becoming Ebony
http://www.siupress.com/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=104&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Before the Palm Could Bloom
Read More from Patricia Online!
http://www.pjabbeh.com/faq-home.htm
http://www.pjabbeh.com/exile.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54801
http://www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/two-poems-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://homeslicemag.com/poetry-woman-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/19/wesley19.html
http://www.nathanielturner.com/patriciajabbehwesleytable.htm
Interviews
https://wpsu.psu.edu/tv/programs/conversations/patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://radio.wpsu.org/post/take-note-poet-patricia-jabbeh-wesley-surviving-liberian-civil-war
Hear Patricia Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZeb8b4qVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmc9BPgH3UE
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
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