Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, a Liberian civil war survivor and poet, immigrated with her family to the US during the Liberian civil war. Her books of poetry have been critically reviewed by literary critics and scholars in Europe, Africa, South America, America, and elsewhere. A regular interviewee on her poetics by NPR affiliate TV and Radio stations around the US, Dr. Wesley is also a public speaker on topics about the Liberian civil war, the plight of women, and African and African Diaspora poetics. She is the author of six books of poetry and a children's book, including, Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems (Feb, 2020) “When the Wanderers Come Home,” (2016), “Where the Road Turns,” (2010), “The River is Rising,” (2007), “Becoming Ebony,” (2003), and “Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa,” (2012). Jabbeh Wesley’s individual poems and nonfiction articles have been published in numerous magazines, including Harvard Review, Harvard Divinity Review, Transition Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, New Orleans Review, Black Renaissance Noire, among others. Her poetry and nonfiction pieces have been anthologized in dozens of books in the US and across the world, and her work has been translated in Spanish, Finnish, and Hebrew. She is Professor of English, Creative Writing, and African Literature at Penn State University’s Altoona campus.  Conversations from Penn State | Patricia Jabbeh Wesley | Season 7 | Episode 11 | PBS