An anthology edited by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was recognized as a 100 Notable African Book of 2023. Her book, “Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry,” published in January 2023 by University of Nebraska Press in collaboration with the African Poetry Series, was selected as one of Brittle Paper's 100 Notable African Books of 2023.
ALTOONA, Pa. — Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has two poems featured in the June 2022 issue of Poetry magazine, which, according to the publication, is “the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.”
Jabbeh Wesley's works “Healing Will Come: Elegy After Natural Disaster” and “Black Woman Selling Her Home in America” are published in print, online and in audio form.
Poetry magazine editors also conducted an interview with Jabbeh Wesley about surviving the Liberian civil war, her family’s journey to America, and her poetry’s examination of the lives of survivors of that war.
