Dr. Aimee Wiest

Dr. Aimee Wiest will invite you to reach out, grasp a concept, and pull oneself to safe passage from daily problems and life issues.

Dr. Wiest has taught English and creative writing both as a high school teacher and a college professor. She was an English professor at the College of Notre Dame, the University of Maryland and Anne Arundel Community College. Currently, Dr. Wiest is a part-time professor of literature at Delaware State University. In the past few years she has also served as a lay educator at St. Peter's Episcopal Church teaching various courses in poetry. She has explored many different poetry methods and traditions from the vast cultures around the world.

Dr. Aimee Wiest will explore poetry from many different faith traditions and discuss how they inspire us know God more deeply. Dr. Wiest has taught English and creative writing, both as a high school teacher and a college professor. She was an English professor at the College of Notre Dame, the University of Maryland and Anne Arundel Community College. Currently, Dr. Wiest is a part-time professor of literature at Delaware State University. In the past few years she has also served as a lay educator at St. Peter's Episcopal Church teaching various courses in poetry. She has explored many different poetry methods and traditions from the vast cultures around the world. Using a combination of music and readings, Ms. Wiest will introduce poetry from Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions. She will reflect with participants on their meaning and how they speak to God in their own unique way.

"Snow posits situations for both thoughtfulness and intrigue," explains Aimee Wiest, a visiting professor of literature at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who was snowed in at her home in Lewes, Del.She was catching up on her reading.

"To have an entire world change by unique flakes," she says, "becomes a great incentive" for writers to use snow as a setting.

Surrounded -- and bound in -- by snow, life becomes a leaner, cleaner story in slow motion.Like a birth or a war or a love affair or a death, a debilitating snowstorm stops us cold and forces us to confront existence.