Robert Kendall (poet)

Robert Kendall is an influential figure in the field of digital poetry. Canadian-born, he now lives in the United States.[1] He has a master's degree in Musicology and has taught electronic poetry for the New School University's online course.[2]

In 1990, he used DOS to create two 'kinetic poems', The Clue: a MiniMystery and It all Comes Down to ________.[3] [4] Kendall refers to these two early poems as "SoftPoems", in which words and phrases are animated to match movement with meaning.[1] He later worked with Visual Basic, using this Microsoft programming language to create a book-length hypertext poem, A Life Set for Two, in 1996.[5] Kendall has also created work for Flash and the Web. Kendall serves on the board of directors for the Electronic Literature Organization.[6]

Works
  • Kendall, Robert (2006). Logoza.
  • Kendall, Robert (2004). Candles for a Street Corner. A work of multimedia poetry.
  • Kendall, Robert (2002). Clues. A work of detective noir interactive poetry.
  • Kendall, Robert (2001). Faith. A work of kinetic concrete poetry.
  • Kendall, Robert (2000). A Study in Shades. A a two part poem about dealing with Alzheimer's disease.
  • Kendall, Robert (1996). A Life Set for Two. Eastgate Systems, Inc.
  • Kendall, Robert (1992). A Wandering City. Issue 33 of CSU poetry series. Cleveland State University Poetry Center. ISBN 0-914946-86-2.
gollark: Things are actually quite good in many ways. Things are, by many metrics, better than they've ever been. Extreme poverty continues to trend vaguely downward, technology advances, people are getting richer, etc.
gollark: So it's better than conclusions which don't follow from premises.
gollark: It is one of those conclusions which follows from premises which some people agree with.
gollark: See, this is a different argument which I also don't agree with.
gollark: Which is bad.

See also

References
  1. New, William H. (2002). Encyclopedia of literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 1092. ISBN 0-8020-0761-9.
  2. "E-poets on the State of their Electronic Art: Robert Kendall". Currents in Electronic Literacy. 5. Fall 2001. Archived from the original on 2009-07-24.
  3. Kac, Eduardo (2007). Media poetry: an international anthology. Intellect Books. p. 277. ISBN 1-84150-030-5.
  4. Johnston, David Jhave; Ollivier Dyens (21 October 2008). "1990: Robert Kendall's It All Comes Down to _______". Digital Poetry Overview. Concordia University. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
  5. Landow, George P. (1997). Hypertext 2.0 (2 ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-8018-5585-3.
  6. "People – Electronic Literature Organization". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2017-10-20.


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