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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Lecture Series

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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University, Altoona, presents a cycle of interactive cross-genre lecture workshops on various aspects of craft and technique for creative writers. She is author of:
The River is Rising
Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press (forthcoming 2008)

Becoming Ebony
Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003

Before The Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo: New Issues Press, 1998
The series commences with a general introduction to creative writing and an overview of the three major genres: poetry, fiction and playwriting. The opening lectures also explore folklore and oral literatures as the foundation of the storytelling tradition in Liberia. Each discussion focuses on what it means to create literature.

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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Lectures






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