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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry called her the first major poet to emerge from Liberia in decades. She then edited the first full anthology of Liberian writing there has ever been.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a Liberian poet and academic, named by the Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry in 2017 as the first major poet to emerge from Liberia in decades.
Her collection Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems (2020) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2023. In 2022 she edited Breaking the Silence, the first complete anthology of Liberian literature from the 1800s to the present, gathering both established and emerging writers.
Her collection Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems (2020) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2023. In 2022 she edited Breaking the Silence, the first complete anthology of Liberian literature from the 1800s to the present, gathering both established and emerging writers.
- University of Nebraska Press — Breaking the Silence
- The Liberian Investigator — Writing from Liberia: a brief introduction to the nation's literary legacy
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