Electronic Poet, Bronze sculpture in downtown Portland, US.

The Electronic Poet is a bronze sculpture in downtown Portland featuring an LED light board that displays rotating poetry text above the sidewalk on Southwest Morrison Street. The work combines metal casting with digital display technology to integrate written words directly into the urban pedestrian experience.

Keith Jellum created this sculpture in 1984 through Portland's Percent for Art program, which directed funding toward integrating artworks into public spaces. The installation has remained part of the city's public art collection and continues to display rotating texts to pedestrians.

The display rotates through poems by writers from America, Europe, Native American traditions, and the Pacific Northwest. This literary mix reflects the city's connection to diverse voices and storytelling traditions.

The piece hangs above the sidewalk on Southwest Morrison Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, so look up rather than at eye level. The LED board runs its poems in a loop and shows the line "I am E.P." roughly every ten minutes. It is a short stop on downtown walking tours.

The text "I am E.P." appears on the LED board roughly every ten minutes. Willamette Week's Marty Smith noted that the sculpture does not compose its own poems and that the planned six-month rotation of selections "does not appear to be religiously observed"; he also wondered whether the name played on E.T., the 1982 film about another flat-headed being.