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EDMUND SKELLINGS
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POET OF TECHNOLOGY
Edmund Skellings applied audio, video and digital communication techniques to modernize poetry for the 21st Century.
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1960S Edmund Skellings’ first book, Duels
and Duets, contained vinyl recordings of the young poet reciting his poetry.
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1960S
Edmund Skellings performed poetry with electronic amplification in his microphone line.
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1970S Edmund Skellings’
American Poetry Trilogy covered three great themes:
Heart Attacks (1976) explores man and science.
Face Value (1977) concerns man and mankind.
Showing My Age (1978) depicts man and society.
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1980S In 1980, Governor Bob Graham appointed
Edmund Skellings Poet Laureate of Florida.
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1980S Edmund Skellings
turned his attention to the emerging technology and gained a reputation as a computer pioneer.
He used a color monitor to highlight poetic elements such as meter and rhyme in matching colors.
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1980S
IBM published the Electric Poet authoring system based upon Skellings’ patented teaching system.
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1980S Skellings designed a modern information system
with electronic mail for the Florida Legislature.
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1980S
Living Proof (1985) celebrates creative moments in art, science, and daily life.
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1990S Collected Poems: 1958-
1998 includes Heart Attacks, Face Value, Showing My Age, Living Proof, and a new volume of poetry, Personal Effects.
Ask the front desk to look at Collected Poems.
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1990S An audio CD of the poet reciting his
work was included in Collected Poems.
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1990S Edmund Skellings
collaborated with student artists to produce award- winning animated poetry.
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1990S
Nearing the Millennium, an award winning video biography about Edmund Skellings, featured his animated poetry.
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2000S In 2008, Edmund Skellings
became a University Professor of Humanities and Communication at Florida Tech.
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VISIT THE EDMUND SKELLINGS COLLECTION ONLINE AT EVANS LIBRARY
DIGITAL ARCHIVES.
http://research.fit.edu/edmundskellings