[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.
Kendall serves on the board of directors for the Electronic Literature Organization.