Jul 23, 2019
Listen to Emily Vieweg discuss her journey to
writing poetry with all the complexities and challenges being a
single mother of two, and juggling a full-time job and creative
writing classes, and surviving bad advice from well-meaning
professors.
Emily Vieweg, in her chapbook
collection Conversations with Beethoven and Bach, evokes an
image of the poet who, deeply entrenched in the complexities of
21st century life as a mother, reaches across time to link with wit
and grace her experiences with classical musicality. In her
vignettes, so much turns on a single word such as “frolic” that
evokes love and fear and changes in both society and
environment. ~ Clifford Peterson, 2017 ~ Taleamor Park
Residency Director
BIO:
Emily Vieweg is a poet and
writer originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She earned her MFA in
poetry in 2015 and has published two short chapbooks of poetry.
Emily's poetic success includes publications appearing in Indolent
Books What Rough Beast, Santa Fe Writers Project, as well as
winning Best Performance Work in the 2nd Annual Human Rights Arts
Festival for her poem, "Vision." Emily lives in Fargo, ND, where
she is a single working mother of two, volunteer car wrangler,
human rights advocate, and office assistant.