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Edison
Community College...
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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