Fwd: Salon Salvage #46, July 25th, 7pm, w/ Eleni Sikelianos, Rachelle Rahmé, and Rueben Gelley Newman

[Dan Wilcox]

Great line up -- but I will be out of town -- if you are here, check it out --

DWx

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From: Salon Salvage <salonsal...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Subject: Salon Salvage #46, July 25th, 7pm, w/ Eleni Sikelianos, Rachelle Rahmé, and Rueben Gelley Newman
To: Matthew Klane <matthe...@gmail.com>

Hey friends,

Salon Salvage returns this Saturday night, July 25th, 7pm, at Upstairs Arts Collective (403 Fulton Street in Troy) with poets Eleni Sikelianos, Rachelle Rahmé, and Reuben Gelley Newman. Bio information below. Flyer attached. See y'all there!

Heart of hearts,

Mk (Amie and Hajar)

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Born into a family of tree workers, bohemians, poets, ne'er-do-wells, visionaries, and smalltime sort-of hustlers, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, collaborator, and "master of mixing genres." As a student of the poets of Naropa, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider poetics family tree. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work. She has published ten books of poetry (most recently, Your Kingdom, 2023) and a trilogy of unclassifiable hybrid works, sometimes called nonfiction, sometimes memoirs, sometimes fiction: The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine, and, most recently, Memory Rehearsal (City Lights, 2026). Memory Rehearsal, called “a triumph of cultural archaeology” in a starred Kirkus review and named One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books for 2026, is a genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history, ancient theater, utopian visions, and modern poetry.

Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American writer and scholar interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. Rahmé is the author of the chapbooks Count Thereof Upon the Other’s Limbs (72 Press, 2019), Puce Commodity (earthbound, 2020), Bataille’s Eggs (blush, 2021), At Crepuscule Remember Aqueducts (Wonder, 2023), Protest and Orison (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2023), Hieroglyphics Then and Now (Spiral Editions, 2023), and Mercurial, or Is That Liberty? (Fonograf, 2025). Her translations of the philosopher Georges Bataille’s occupation poetry were published by o•blēk in 2021 as 27 Poems on Death. Superveillance, her speculative fiction novella, was published in an artist’s edition by Aventures Ltd in 2029.

Reuben Gelley Newman is a writer, musician, and librarian who circulates in New York City and its environs. His book Dear Dear, selected by Randall Mann for the Louise Bogan Award, is newly out from Trio House Press. He also wrote a chapbook, Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press, 2024), and his poems have appeared in Fence, Denver Quarterly, and Fairy Tale Review.