Poets, including Theodore Roethke, often use their craft to find a safe place of healing from their trauma. Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has experienced tragedy and trauma, from cancer to the sudden loss of her mother, siblings, and relatives during the Liberian Civil War. She has used writing for more than thirty years as a tool in finding healing.
Join Dr. Jabbeh Wesley to explore how recovery from illness comes first with diagnosis, which leads to a feeling of power, and then to a connection to healing through the power of admission. Like illness, the pain of grief, loss, and disaster, when buried, may threaten to destroy our lives. How do we navigate painful times in our lives?
In this workshop, we will explore these deep places in our hearts, read poetry together, and write poems that heal and restore.
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About Dr. Patricia Jebbeh Wesley
Professor of English & Creative Writing, Penn State University- Altoona College
Poet, Author of six volumes of Poetry
2022 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize Winner for her Book, Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems