SHAMPOO

07/29/2024

Hello SHAMPOO fans new & a bit further on. SHAMPOO still exists. This is an update but mistly sn exceept from so sthing I sent a while back. I have been concentrating on. t own work, particularly the ANACHRONIZMS (at anachronizms dot blogspot dot com) these past seceral years, but have spent a lot of behind the scenes work on SHAMPOO, thanjs especially yo the fact that my original URL, for which I had at rhe time recently renewed, was stolen from me.

Getting my old URL back hS been an imperative goL hut a difgicylt one It was, and I have plenty of proof, stolen right out from under me. I, in fact, paid for a renewal of service for the folks who stole it from me. I have no idea who that was, but there is a name that the person who has it now goes by: DANIL RUDOY - this person or pseudonym id bad news, be warned.. He uses the old site to sell his own books on Amazon, etc., while otherwise disparaging poetry. But all of the poems from SHAMPOO's first 40 issues plus can be found on that site as well, which is now dubbed "Contemporary Poetry".

The stolen URL is shampoopoetry.com. The URL I painstakingly moved everything to in mostly appropriate original quality is shampoo-poetry.com.

Please feel free have a look for yourself, visit whenever you'd like and kindly let me know if there are any issues that you find with the site --  I do know that some of the graphics are not working but I will get them done once I really start working on the magazines will happen.

I'd like to briefly tell you the story of how utterly mind-blowing my path has been to attenpt tothus far no avail to get my original SHAMPOO URL back. I spent nearly two decades working on it there only to have it stolen in the most absurd manner from me. I have disputed the problem three times. The no fee way. Despite the reams of proof that I was able to send to the powers that be, you can still see that the old URL is not the wonderful magazine that is SHAMPOO. As my life has improved considerably this past year i do hope that soon I shall have the wherewithal to end this fiasco. If if there is any justice in the world, I will. So I am not holding my breath.

Some may ask why this matters so much to me. I don't even fret about copyrighting my own poems. But the magazine was not about me. It was about others' poetry. The poetry of over 1,000 others. And I'd venture to say, in fact I know, that copyright and propriety meant a lot to those folks, you may be among those whose work I publushed. The way this has been accomplished by the thieves is illegal, but I have yet to see justice. So...decades of work down the drain or sullied by the absurdity of a person who actually calls themselves a poet being okay to slime the character of a magazine built very specifically just to sell what? Anyway, I keep wanting so badly to tell this story but it's so absurd and leaves me feeling so helpless it took me a very long time to even begin to do so.

More than anything else I want the magazine to live on. I so miss working on it. And I just have not been able to do that given the fact that there's this impostor out there. These are my feelings on the subject. But I believe that soon I may be able to get this person to remove the site, which is all I ask. Except, also, it was mine and I paid for the subscription and received receipt of its renewal days before it was taken from me.

Well, this is my update and a hello, I really want and need to engage with you out there, my poet friends, people that I'd like to call friends, poet lovets, people I know, etc. -- to just engage.

So please take note if you have not already that the website for SHAMPOO IS NOW SHAMPOO-POETRY.COM. NOT the old website URL without that hyphen.

Clearly there is always work to be done. I'm hoping that you stay tuned to this page and the site for upcoming new issues. In the meantime, there are still nearly 41 issues, with over 1,000 poets who have given amazing work that can be found where else but the one place for clean hair and good poetry. long live SHAMPOO.

❤️always,
del

del ray cross, founder & editor
SHAMPOO
(https://www.shampoo-poetry.com)

-POETRY,

clean hair / good poetry

02/02/2023

hello again SHAMPOO fans,

as promised in my last note, here is the wikipedia page for simon perchik, in case anyone is interested or would like a bit of inspiration, perhaps.

and as a reminder, slow as it may seem to go, there will be a bigger hoopla upcoming regarding the return of SHAMPOO. but have no fear, we never left. in fact, you can continue reading new work in issue 41, and work is being accepted for review for issue 42. just send yours to [email protected].

stay tuned for more SHAMPOO news, plus the most widely anticipated issue's completion in the history of mankind (maybe this is even true, but probably not)!

lub,
del

del ray cross
founder & editor
SHAMPOO
(https://www.shampoo-poetry,.com)
clean hair / good poetry since 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Perchik

Simon Perchik (December 24, 1923 – June 14, 2022)[1] was an American poet who has been described by Library Journal as, "the most widely published unknown poet in America." Perchik worked as an attorney before his retirement in 1980. Educated at New York University, he later resided in East Hampto...

02/02/2023

I am sure many of you already know this, but 0n June 14, 2022, a regular contributor to SHAMPOO passed away. I like the little blurb noted from the new york times at this link: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/simon-perchik-obituary?id=35268607
and for anyone who did not know who he was, it's worth a look, his wikipedia page is worth a look, i will post his wikipedia page in a separate post.

one anecdote: like i was with a large percentage of SHAMPOO contributors, I knew nothing about him except that he somehow found out about the magazine's existence very early on and would almost, but not rudely, barrage me with potential contributions from then until before the magazine went on hiatus. i would read them all, but i was, how do i put this, well, they just didn't impress me much at all. but his persistence did. and persistence certainly would help get one into SHAMPOO. but it wasn't the thing for me. nope. something just snapped and then i got it. his work meant something to me and i felt that his work should be showcased, and thus he became one of over 1,000 SHAMPOO stars. This would have been in issue 16. I did not learn of his death until after i posted his only other contribution to SHAMPOO, which I just inserted (yes, I accepted it a very long time ago) in issue 41. You can have a look at it there, if you'd like (here's the link: https://shampoo-poetry.com/shampoofortyone/perchik.htm).

As a reminder, slow as it's been, I'm almost finished with issue 41 and am already accepting work for issue 42. Send me poetry if you'd like a chance to be included in the grand reboot of SHAMPOO. Poetry and shampoo art of any kind is accepted for consideration year-round at [email protected].

Rest in Peace, Simon Perchik. And thank you for your poetry

Thanks for checking in,

Del Ray Cross
Found & Editor
SHAMPOO
clean hair / good poetry

View SIMON PERCHIK's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.