John H. Evans Library Digital Collections

Photograph of Edmund Skellings and Robert Frost

Title

Photograph of Edmund Skellings and Robert Frost

Type

still image

Subject

Photographs | Poets | Frost, Robert | Skellings, Edmund | University of Iowa

Creator

Unknown

Date

1959

Format

jpg

Item

https://chell.lib.fit.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/files/Skellings/Photographs/PHO-5900-01.jpg

Description

Paul Engle, Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has Edmund Skellings' picture taken with Robert Frost when the famous New England poet came to the University of Iowa. The photograph was taken outside the old building where the Workshop met and Frost had just spoken to the student writers. Skellings later wrote a poem called "Frost to Skellings" about his brief, but impressionable, meeting with Frost.

Citation

Unknown, “Photograph of Edmund Skellings and Robert Frost,” John H. Evans Library Digital Collections, accessed April 28, 2024, https://digcollections.lib.fit.edu/items/show/3336.