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The Words Beneath the Sound: Music Inspired by Literature

The Words Beneath the Sound: Music Inspired by Literature

ByLara Palmquist

As Virginia Woolf famously observed, the best writing often begins with a rhythmical “wave in the mind,” an inner tempo around which syntax and diction are arranged, a guiding beat of artistic intuition that, when struck upon, makes it nearly impossible to set down the wrong word. Other writers have similarly expressed the importance of…

Students sitting around a table with notebooks and pens.

Back to School Special: Thoughtful Imitation

ByAnca Szilagyi

  I didn’t study creative writing as an undergraduate; it wasn’t an option. When I enrolled in the MFA program at University of Washington, what I craved more than workshop (which I’d experienced a few times in continuing education settings) was the elusive “craft” class: reading analytically not to make an argument about literature (which…