gracias Troy, Collar City! 🌆 thx so much to @salon-salvage.bsky.social for having us and to Amie Zimmerman and @matthewklane.bsky.social for being so kind and wonderful hosts! amazing readings by Amy De'Ath, Rosie Stockton and Christine Kelly!

Read this poem at @salon-salvage.bsky.social last night, woke up to it in my inbox this morning - there's no escape!

Next this month! So happy to have Maryam Parhizkar, Jordan Windholz, Cecilia Lu, & @erindorney.bsky.social

making sense

Last night, our in-person readers @jiminseo.bsky.social Dawn Lundy Martin & Rachel Mannheimer (not pictured, zoomed reader Daisy Atterbury) and can we just say that the night was + + +

This Saturday night @salon-salvage.bsky.social!

One week from today:

Excited for this and super thrilled to be able to join virtually 💜💜

So ready for this lineup: @daisyatter.bsky.social Dawn Lundy Martin @jiminseo.bsky.social Rachel Mannheimer

To kidnap students, to disappear people with no process, is to fulfill the mandate of colonialism. Trump talks about mandate. The mandate is not to restore American prosperity, but rather to make plain Americas capacity for and thirst for violence.

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Cover reveal!!!!!

Salvage 30: art by Judith Braun, translation of the historical moment @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social, the poetry of family from Maggie Greaves - @matthewklane.bsky.social remembering Pierre Joris & his massive presence locally

Thought of another while in the shower: after inviting me to read @salon-salvage.bsky.social was very responsive to my questions and made accommodations. That’s why I am doing a poetry reading with them this June in Troy,NY, hopefully outside! 💕

This Saturday! Braun, Greaves, and Ibrahim will be in Troy for Salvage 30

This Saturday! Braun, Greaves, and Ibrahim will be in Troy for Salvage 30

The next @salon-salvage.bsky.social will be on Saturday night, March 29th, 7pm, at Upstairs Arts Collective in Troy, NY, and will feature Judith Braun, Maggie Greaves, and Mayada Ibrahim. See y’all soon!

I can't wait!

In two weeks, we're hosting Judith Braun, Maggie Greaves, and @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social at Salvage 30 in Troy NY

Really loved this reading in Troy, NY 🙏

Our beloved co-curator Hajar Hussaini is a MacDowell fellow!!! Late summer we'll have a translation reading - more soon 🎉🎉🎉

Salvage 29 (Feb 2025) cold outside warm inside @tylerbartonlol.bsky.social Miriam Atkin @betsyfagin.bsky.social @alexachang2000.bsky.social

In a couple weeks Salvage 29, another in the multimedia installments @alexachang2000.bsky.social @tylerbartonlol.bsky.social Miriam Atkin & Betsy Fagin ⚪⚪⚪

Thinking about the perfect reading at the showcase for Winter Editions authors Alan Gilbert, Karla Kelsey, Monica McClure, and Robert Fitterman at last month's Salvage ✨✨

Snowy day here in the Capital Region. Perfect for posting this new @salon-salvage.bsky.social flier! We’ll be back on Saturday night, February 22nd, with Miriam Atkin, @tylerbartonlol.bsky.social and Betsy Fagin, as well as improvisational harpist @alexachang2000.bsky.social. See y’all soon! ❤️

Up next: a special Winter Editions lineup here in Troy, NY 🟨

Gonna make another go of posting here instead of the other place! Have a ton of catch up to do with last year's lineups and posters! Feel free to share or suggest who we should follow ✨🌟✨

Salvage had another beautiful night on 12/30- Angie Smith, Paolo Javier, and Bill Lessard read poems and Swamp Baby played a closing set ✨

Last weekend we had a non-NYE NYE for those who chose to celebrate with us! Three poets and a band was the magic number 💙💥

Matthew always doing the best w our posters

Salvage 15 was a beautiful night in an otherwise grief-stricken time. We are always grateful to spend time with luminaries like @multiwhirl.bsky.social Connor Armbruster, Lucas Baisch, and Benjamin Krusling 🤍

Salvage 14 is tomorrow at 7pm in Troy, NY. Join us if you can at Weathered Wood!

Salvage 14 reader John Bosworth is a poet & essayist from west Texas interested in collaboration, visual art, and queer histories. Bosworth is a recipient of the 2018 Most Promising Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Salvage 14 reader Moriana Delgado is a Mexico City writer. Her first poetry collection, Peces de pelea, came out summer of 2022 with The National Autonomous University of Mexico Press. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in spring of 2022.

Salvage 14 reader Leslie Sainz @lesannsai.bsky.social is the author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House, 2023). The daughter of Cuban exiles, she is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship.

Salvage 14 reader J. Michael Martinez is the author of TARTA AMERICANA out now w Penguin Random House. His first book HEREDITIES received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and his book MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS was a winner of the National Poetry Series Competition.

In two weeks, we will be hosting @lesannsai.bsky.social, J Michael Martinez, Moriana Delgado, and John Bosworth at Salvage 14 ☂️

And here is Subramanian setting up for the show ☁️🤍

Salvage 13 featured a film short from experimental maker Kalpana Subramanian - considered with the breath:

Here's February / #6

Salvage 13 reader @alinapleskova.bsky.social from 9/30/23: "some in my family say / there are proper channels to citizenship / having overwritten their own origin stories years ago / in adapting to regional customs / one becomes a citizen of borders and bootstrap mythologies"

Everyone should go see this. Especially bc our fave reader @pepepierce.bsky.social is part of the lineup 🤍

At Salvage 13, reader Stephanie Cawley took us to the lighthouse: "a woman paints / and then a war erupts / and a woman paints again"

Last Saturday 9/30, Jennifer Nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social read at Salon Salvage: "you are a chorus of wrestling moves and obstacles / and the song of them is a radical love"

Salvage 13 was elevating: film from Kalpana Subramanian and poems from @alinapleskova.bsky.social @henkaipantomime.bsky.social & Stephanie Cawley 🩶 more soon

Will be posting more from Saturday's reading, but for now here's us celebrating Salon Salvage 13 🍜

Salvage 13 reader Alina Pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social is a poet, editor, & Moscow-born immigrant turned proud Philadelphian. Her first full-length collection, Toska, was published by Deep Vellum in 2023. She co-edits bedfellows magazine & is a 2020/2022 Leeway Foundation grant awardee.

Still hungry for kupu after Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori? We recommend 'takahē'! Te Aka Māori Dictionary has an excellent resource that lets you listen to the correct pronunciation: maoridictionary.co.nz/word/7203 Kia Kaha Te Reo Māori! ❤️🩷🧡💛💚🩵

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Salvage 13 reader Kalpana Subramanian is a media artist, scholar and filmmaker interested in experimenting with media through transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches.