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Lecture Series Brings Magic of Writing to Life

Edison Community College will host a public lecture series event focusing on the importance, power and effect that writing has on our daily lives on Thursday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in the Edison Theater of the Piqua campus.

The lecture, titled, “Writing as Magick: Words, Reality and Responsibility,” will be presented by Edison faculty member Stephen Marlowe, Esq. Marlowe is a writer, teacher and lawyer who holds degrees from the University of Toledo and Miami University. He currently teaches composition at Edison and was the recipient of a Studio Fellowship while studying under Frank Conroy at the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop.

“Some linguists have held that language creates perceived reality. But rather than being only passive viewers of what language allows us to see, we are in fact constant, active and dynamic participants in the creation of our environment through agreement to the terms describing it – much as a magician’s audience agrees to be fooled or a svengali’s disciples agree to believe,” said Marlowe. “Once recognized, this fact of life has moral consequences for everyone involved and we must take great care that language is not misused, or allowed to be misused, to create negative outcomes.”

Marlowe’s fiction has been published in various journals, including Metazen and Emic. He has been a feature essayist for Chapati Mystery since 2004. In 2005, his series, Religion in America, received a nomination for Best of the Web from the History News Network.

This is the final lecture series of the spring. Previous lectures have focused on a range of local and global matters involving everything from nutrition to exotic forms of music to the impact that pesticides have on our region’s ground water.

The series is sponsored by The Arts & Sciences Division of Edison Community College.


 
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