Eliot Cardinaux

Eliot Cardinaux is a poet, pianist, and composer living in Western Massachusetts. Working at the intersection of improvised music & lyric poetry, his work could be described as oblique, and is often both dissident & devotional. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in music from The New England Conservatory, and an MFA in Poetry from The University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the founder of The Bodily Press, through which he releases poetry chapbooks, CDs, LPs, and collaborations with visual artists. His poems have been published in print & online publications such as Jacket2, The Café Review, Spectra Poets, Talisman, Caliban Online, and Bloodroot Literary Magazine.