
Poetry Reading with Eleanor Bates
Seasonal Wonderings: Poems for Summer Fall Winter Spring
Ellie Bates, retired from the Edgartown School, is a member of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Polly Hill Arboretum, Cleaveland House Poets, MV Poets’ Collective, New England Poetry Club, MV Garden Club, International Women’s Writing Guild, and Pathways Institute. Her collage work of images and words has appeared at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Her writing has been published in the Vineyard Gazette, MV Times, Cleaveland House Poets: 50 Years and In the Company of Poets, Anthology 2021. Ellie’s photographs and poetry are in her three small chapbooks: Everything Changes, Rooted in Change & A Collage of Poetry and in work by Howes House Writers, the MV Poets’ Collective and the Island Educational Journal: Refocus.
Her work appears in Covid Monologues, MV and PathwaysArts: New Works 2020-2021. Her chapbook Seasonal Wonderings Poems for Summer Fall Winter Spring was published by Kelsay Books in 2022.