Eliot Cardinaux is a poet, pianist, composer, and translator working at the intersection of the lyric and improvised music. The author of On the Long Blue Night (Dos Madres, 2023), and the trio of Quiet Labor, Toy Elegy, and This Music From Another Room (Bodily Press, 2024), Eliot has produced over a dozen albums, including American Thicket, Sweet Beyond Witness, Pavane, Out of Our Systems, and most recently, Imminence, with percussionist Gary Fieldman. Eliot’s poems and translations have appeared in journals such as California Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Meridian, Jacket2, Bennington Review, The Arts Fuse, and Spoon River Poetry Review. He is the sole founder and editor of The Bodily Press.