07/01/2022
Hello. Here are some words from me regarding a certain sudsy poetry magazine. And, still, also, a hello:
I've been a bit intimidated by the new Facebook SHAMPOO page. Or the way Meta/Facebook presents it to me. I have, in other words, no time to figure out what it looks like to you, my dear SHAMPOO friends, when, say, I post something. I mean, I know the ways. I used to know the ways. Boy, did I ever know the ways. This is a hello. I'm working on ways to engage again. It's been seven years of not really engaging. And that's ridiculous. And I'm okay over here. And SHAMPOO still exists. I have spent a lot of behind the scenes work on it. But most all of that has been to get my URL back. 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 iot now goes by: Danil Rudoy. 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 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. But have a look for yourself. I'd like to tell you the story of how utterly mind-blowing my path has been to try to get a URL back that I spent several decades working on 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. Well, soon I shall have the wherewithal to end this fiasco, if there is any justice in the world. Some may ask why this matters so much to me. Well, I don't even believe in copyrighting my 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 them. And then there's the notion of reputation. But finally there's just plain justice. Right and wrong. 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 I have yet to really do so. And 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. 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 minem, and it was stolen from me. So I dunno. This is just me saying hello, I really want and need to engage with you out there, my poet friends, people that I'd like to call friends, friends, people -- to just engage. And that I will do. I am back. I think,. I never went awaym, really. I think. And it's shampoo-poetry.com - NOT the old website URL - to which I ask that for now you direct your attention. That's http://shampoo-poetry.com.
Clearly there is always work to be done. I'm going to stay stay tuned, in hopes that there will be plenty more SHAMPOO to be experienced. 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
(http://shampoo-poetry.com)
-POETRY,
clean hair / good poetry
