Festival Pieces Together the Arts

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The 41st annual Blair County Arts Festival is just around the corner at PennState Altoona. The festival is noon to 9 p.m. May 17 and noon to 6 p.m. May18. It features craft booths, live music, art exhibits, dance performancesand food, as well as a children's village packed with hands-on activities andentertainment. The festival is sponsored by the Blair County Arts Foundationand the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. It draws in thousands of peopleeach year with its variety of art work, crafts and entertainment.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, assistant professor of English, was the feature of an article in the May/June Issue of the Indiana University alumni magazine. The article, titled, "Surviving War," also included three of Wesley's poems. The poems can be read at http://alumni.indiana.edu/magazine/poetry/index.shtml

Four of Wesley’s newer poems were published in the winter/spring issue of  JALA: Journal of the African Literature Association. Three of her poems were republished in issue 97 of Transition: An International Review.

Wesley was also featured by the Huntingdon Arts Council as the visiting poet for Poetry Month on April 17 and 18, 2008. She read her poetry in Huntingdon, PA, and conducted three poetry workshops for seniors in the Southern Huntingdon County High School on April 18, 2008.

Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2008