Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was a featured speaker for the University of Wah in Pakistan's Lecture Series of Foreign English Professors webinar. Her poem, "The Year of Insanity: to 2017," was nominated for a Best of the Net Award.
ALTOONA, Pa. — Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was a featured speaker for the University of Wah in Pakistan's Lecture Series of Foreign English Professors webinar on Aug. 16. She presented “The Beauty and Challenges of Writing African Literature in the Diaspora.”
Also, Wesley's poem "The Year of Insanity: to 2017,” published this summer in The Summerset Review, was nominated for a Best of the Net Award. Two other poems, “In the Other World” and “Flying,” were accepted to be published in the Pittsburgh online magazine Vox Populi.
Further, several young aspiring Liberian poets mentored by Jabbeh Wesley through her nonprofit organization, Young Scholars of Liberia, had their poems published in an anniversary issue of Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. Their poems were featured along with Jabbeh Wesley’s poem, “I Come from a Country that Eats its Young.”
