Robert Kendall (poet)

Robert Kendall is a digital poet. Canadian-born, he now lives in the United States. He has a master's degree in Musicology and has taught electronic poetry for the New School University's online course.

In 1990, he used MS-DOS to create two 'kinetic poems', The Clue: a MiniMystery and It all Comes Down to ________. Kendall refers to these two early poems as "SoftPoems", in which words and phrases are animated to match movement with meaning. In 1996, he used Visual Basic to create a book-length hypertext poem, A Life Set for Two. Kendall has also created work for Flash and the World Wide Web. Kendall is on the board of directors for the Electronic Literature Organization.

Works

Robert Kendall's works are collected in the NEXT Museum, Library, and Preservation Space. His archives are at Duke University.

• 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 two-part poem about dealing with Alzheimer's disease.

See also

• Eastgate Systems
• Hypertext

References

External links

• Kendall's homepage
• Robert Kendall feature article, The Cortland Review, Fall 2002.
• A Study in Shades, interactive poem on BBC Online.