S3 Timur Gritsevskiy and Kate Colburn
               -The Muse

By definition, goddess or the power regarded as inspiring poets, artists, thinkers; a source of inspiration. Writing as an art has been inspired by
these Muses, and their power in stimulation of the mind is immeasurable. Wallace Stevens wrote in his essay "The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words" that poetry is formed with “an interdependence of the
imagination and reality as equals.” In other words, without the reality, the imagination cannot exist. Oftentimes the Muse is silent, only living through the work that has been made in its admiration. Without these Muses though, however silent, the world of poetry would lack interest, tenacity and breath, and the innovation and clever works of literature would
simply cease to exist.

A Muse is a letter, a photograph, great American Literature, war, sound, love, hatred, a child, an old attic, a map of the Planisphere, an ocean’s
salt, a glimmer of hope, a wedding ring, carbonation, great artworks, a necessary angel, a philosophers mind. Place, in turn, can act as
Muse, in forms as small as a person’s immediate surroundings and expanding ever outward: neighborhood, city, country, world, dimension.
Here we look at the work of several local writers, as they explore a sense of place within their own concepts of the Muse and see how it affects their
writing.