Eliot Cardinaux

Eliot Cardinaux was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1984.  He grew up there and in Geneva, Switzerland where he moved when he was 10.  He studied music in both cities but quit, learning to play some old jazz tunes on his own, and eventually with friends and teachers.  After finishing high school in Dayton, he attended Manhattan School of Music for three years, then dropped out, and lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn for the next two years, playing regularly, in New York, on the East Coast, and abroad.  He moved to Amherst two years later, where he currently resides, playing music and reading poetry, mostly at open mics in Northampton.  He has published one poem thus far, The Bridge, in "This," a poetry magazine - http://www.thiszine.org/ .  He has written three collections of poems, collectively entitled Dark Room, none of which has been published as a whole.  He is currently working on a forth, and collaborating with musicians both in Amherst and New York, among them Sean Ali, Daniel Levine, Jeremy Starpoli, Flin van Hemmen, Isaac Luxon and Jim Krull.  He is twenty-six.