Elliott Kolker, an artist and prolific poet who wrote verse about Stinson Beach and Bolinas and was a well-known personage on their streets for nearly five decades, died on Jan. 22 at age 74.
Widely known by his moniker “the Village Elliott,” Mr. Kolker produced reams of poems that ranged from baseball ballads and humorous doggerel to elegies for the departed. His poetry often punctuated the milestones of life—births, marriages, retirements and deaths—capturing both…