Eliot Cardinaux & The Bodily Press

Eliot Cardinaux is a neuroqueer poet, pianist, composer, translator, and publisher working at the intersection of the lyric and improvised music. The author of seven poetry collections, including On the Long Blue Night (Dos Madres, 2023), Eliot has produced and appeared on over a dozen albums of original music, including, most recently, Imminence, with percussionist Gary Fieldman. Eliot’s poems and translations have appeared in journals such as California Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Meridian, Jacket2, Solstice, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Eliot is also the founding editor of The Bodily Press. You can find Eliot as @eliotcardinaux and @thebodilypress on Instagram.