Arts Festival
M A C O N
NEW NARRATIVES OF IDENTITY
F I C T I O N ,
TUESDAY, MARCH 1
11 a.m., WRC
Chuck Rosenthal:
Reading from Memoir
7 p.m., Main Campus Theatre
Chuck Rosenthal: Discussion
CHUCK ROSENTHAL
is the author of six
published novels: Loop’s
Progress, Experiments
With Life and Deaf, Loop’s
End, Elena of the Stars,
Jack Kerouac’s Avatar
Angel, and My Mistress,
Humanity. His short fiction
has appeared in numerous
literary magazines including
California Quarterly, New
Kent Quarterly, Minotaur,
Quarterly West, Hayden’s
Ferry Review, Chicago
Review, Western Humanities
Review, Santa Monica
Review, High Performance,
Denver Quarterly, See, Volt,
88, the Norton Anthology
of Flash Fiction and the
Dove-Penguin Anthology
Absolute Disaster. He has
been nominated for a
Pushcart Prize and the PEN
West Literary Award. His
screenplay Cowboys and
Angels was a finalist for
the Sundance Institute. He
has read and lectured at
numerous universities and
appeared on radio and
television nationally and
internationally. He is the
fiction editor for the Los
Angeles Review and teaches
narrative writing and theory
for the Syntext Program
at Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
All events are sponsored by the Artists & Lecturers Committee, the Arts Festival Committee, the Office of Student Life, and the Division of Humanities
S T A T E C O L L E G E
M E M O I R , P O E T R Y , A N D
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 THURSDAY, MARCH 3
11 a.m., Main Campus Theatre 7 p.m., Main Campus Theatre
Dale Ray Phillips: Frank Bidart: A Conversation
Reading Short Stories about Robert Lowell
6:30 p.m., Main Campus Theatre
Janet Murray: Lecture
DALE RAY JANET H.
PHILLIPS MURRAY
published My People’s is an internationally
Waltz, a collectons of recognized interactive
those stories, while designer, the director of
living in Milledgeville, Georgia Tech’s Masters
Georgia. The stories Degree Program in
had also appeared Information Design and
in the Atlantic, GQ, Technology and Ph.D.
Ploughshares, Best in Digital Media, and
American Short Stories, a member of Georgia
and New Stories from Tech’s interdisciplinary
the South: The Year’s Best. GVU Center. She is the
He says of his own author of Hamlet on the
work, “Writing a story is a Holodeck: The Future of
strange act of discovery; Narrative in Cyberspace,
generally, I find that which has been translated
what I have uncovered is into 5 languages, and
nothing more than what is widely used as a
I have always known. roadmap to the coming
Also—and I’m embarrased broadband art, information,
to admit this—I love to and entertainment
lie, and fiction offers an environments. She is
acceptable channel for this currently working on a
compulsion.” textbook for MIT Press,
Dale Ray Phillips Inventing the Medium: A
currently lives in Principled Approach to
Fayetteville, Interactive Design and on
Arkansas. a digital edition of the
Warner Brothers classic,
Casablanca, funded by
NEH and in collaboration
with the American Film
Institute. In addition, she
directs an eTV Prototyping
Group, which has worked
on interactive television
applications for PBS, ABC,
and other networks.
T H E O R Y
FRANK BIDART
was born in Bakersfield,
California, in 1939 and
educated at the University
of California at Riverside
and at Harvard, where he
was a student and friend of
Robert Lowell and Elizabeth
Bishop. Bidart’s early books
are collected in In the
Western Night: Collected
Poems 1965-90. His recent
volumes include Music Like
Dirt and Desire, which was
a finalist for the National
Book Award and the
National Book Critic’s Circle
Award. Bidart is also the
co-editor of Robert Lowell’s
Collected Poems with David
Gewanter. He has also
received the Academy’s
Wallace Stevens Award,
the Lila Wallace-Reader’s
Digest Foundation Writer’s
Award, the Morton Dauwen
Zabel Award given by the
American Academy of Arts
and Letters, the Shelley
Award of the Poetry Society
of America, and The Paris
Review’s Bernard F. Conners
Prize. Bidart was elected a
Chancellor of The Academy
of American Poets in 2003.
He lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts and teaches
at Wellesley.