Please join us for our April 12th Zoom reading featuring Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Victoria Garton and Jermaine Thompson.
To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf240412, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley immigrated to the United States with her family during the 14-year Liberian civil war. She is the author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry, including Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems, When the Wanderers Come Home, Where the Road Turns, The River is Rising, and Becoming Ebony. She is a Professor of English at Penn State Altoona.
Victoria Garton’s books are Venice Comes Clean (Flying Ketchup Press, 2023), Pout of Tangerine Tango (Finishing Line Press, 2022), and Kisses in the Raw Night (BkMk Press,1989.) Her poems are included in the anthologies From K.C., MO to East St. Lou and the upcoming Of Our Own Accord. She retired from teaching composition at Crowder College in 2020.
Born in Louisville, Mississippi, Jermaine Thompson learned language from big-armed women who greased their skillets with gossip and from full-bellied men who cursed and prayed with the same fervor. He’s been writing poetry since he was 13— inspired by having to memorize Langston Hughes’ Harlem for a Black History Program at his Presbyterian church home. Jermaine is an educator who has publications in The Pinch, Memorious, Whale Road Review, Southern Indiana Review, and New Letters.