Fwd: Salon Salvage #45 on Saturday night!

[Dan Wilcox]

a good place to be if you are not at the Old Songs Festival --

DWx

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From: Salon Salvage <salonsal...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Subject: Salon Salvage #45 on Saturday night!
To: Matthew Klane <matthe...@gmail.com>

Hey friends,

Salon Salvage returns this Saturday night, June 27th, 7pm, at Upstairs Arts Collective (403 Fulton Street in Troy) with poets/presenters Carol Graser, Jennifer Karmin, Julia Pello, Douglas Rothschild, and Dominique Vuvan (of Nice Hockey). Bio information below. Flyer attached. See y'all there!

Heart of hearts,

Mk (Amie and Hajar)

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Carol Graser is the author of the poetry collections, Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain (Kelsay Books, 2025) and The Wild Twist of Their Stems (Foothills Publishing 2007) She hosts the fourth Tuesday of the month poetry reading at Caffe Lena, a series that she initiated in 2003. Her work has been published in many literary journals, including Apricity Magazine, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Evening Street Review, Hollins Critic, I-70 Review, The MacGuffin, Midwifery Today, So to Speak, Southern Poetry Review, and Midwest Quarterly. She lives with her husband in the Adirondacks of upstate New York, where they raised three children, countless chickens, and a few cats.

Jennifer Karmin has published, performed, exhibited, taught, and experimented with language across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe.  She has led ensembles of poets improvising together at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets.  Widely published in poetry anthologies, journals, and handmade editions, her books include Aaaaaaaaaaalice and The Sexual Organs of the IRS a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer.  Since 2005, she has curated events for the Red Rover Series.  She works with immigrants and refugees at Truman College, using creative writing to support literacy in Chicago. 

Julia Pello, a refugee from the former Soviet Union, is an interdisciplinary media artist, filmmaker and educator. Her practice involves historical research that addresses problematic national narratives to articulate complex layers of local histories. She received the Wexner Fellowship for Post-Production in 2018 and a DCASE Individual Artist Grant in 2022. Her first feature film, These Sounds Mark the Placements of an Inner World, shot in the archives and historical locations of the early modernist poet and Wisconsin resident, Lorine Niedecker, premiered in competition at FIDMarseille in 2024. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 and has worked closely with inter-tribal American Indian/First Nations/Indigenous communities in Chicago, the greater midwest region and Canada for over ten years.

Douglas Rothschild is an idea once embodied in a poem. Today he remains the unnamable. He is sorry. Maybe he can make it next time. Douglas has been a poet, teacher, polymath, and handy man. For many years he co-curated the Zinc Bar reading series and volunteered in a variety of capacities at the Poetry Project. His books include Cud, lit/writ 103 & Critical Theory: An Appendage, The Minor Arcana, Match Book, The Easter Book, Theogony, The Odyssey: Books IV & IX, & The Rembrandt School School of Poetry. Additionally he has founded a number of Poetical Schools among which are the 24/7 Poet School of Poetry, the Poetry School of Poetry, & the Rembrandt School of Poetry [for which there is an eponymously named book]. His life has been one long miasma of failure, disappointment, coffee & overarching desire. Although he has not yet accomplished anything of note, Mr. Rothschild intends to continue on for some time yet. Some of this life, such as it is, has been chronicled in Bill Luoma’s Works & Days [Works & Days by Luoma, Bill: Very Good PAPERBACK (1998) First. | City Lights Bookstore] & Jennifer Moxley’s The Middle Room [The Middle Room].

Dominique Vuvan is a multi-genre multi-instrumentalist based in the Capital Region. She plays in indie pop band Nice Hockey and space-jazz ensemble Sun Dogs, and lends helping hands to Adam Tinkle and Eric Ayotte when needed. Performing solo terrifies her, and she always wants you to tell her about the last amazing thing you ate.