John H. Evans Library Digital Collections

Color Poems

Title

Color Poems

Type

text

Subject

Color computer graphics | Poetry |

Creator

Skellings, Edmund | Engle, Paul | Eberhart, Richard | Stafford, William | Chappell, Fred | Moss, Howard | Witt, Harold

Date

1978 | 1979

Format

pdf

Item

https://chell.lib.fit.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/files/Skellings/Ephemera/EPH-7800-02.pdf

Description

Edmund Skellings used poems sent to him by Paul Engle, Richard Eberhart, William Stafford, Fred Chappell, Howard Moss, and Harold Witt as well as one of his own poems into Color Poems. Applying his color text system, he highlighted poetic elements such as rhyme and alliteration. The poems were colored on an Intelligence Systems Computer (ISC) and printed using a Xerox color graphics printer. They were first shown at Tektronix Corporation. Then they became a part of the George Eastman House Electroworks Exhibition.

Citation

Skellings, Edmund | Engle, Paul | Eberhart, Richard | Stafford, William | Chappell, Fred | Moss, Howard | Witt, Harold, “Color Poems,” John H. Evans Library Digital Collections, accessed May 10, 2024, https://digcollections.lib.fit.edu/items/show/1905.