Shane Allison likes it with the lights on. his favorite shampoo is dishwashing liquid. Toby Axelrod is a freelance journalist who prefers salty food. she came to Berlin from NYC 11.5 years ago and now aims to concoct the great-american-overseas-trash novel, thinking – that’s something people will still buy nowadays. Dodie Bellamy’s latest chapbook is Barf Manifesto (Ugly Duckling Presse). she lives in San Francisco where her favorite shampoo, her only shampoo, Max Green Alchemy Scalp Rescue, is made. Susan Bernofsky was a good sprinter in junior high in New Orleans; now she writes, translates and blogs. details here. Mark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon, 2009) and the Lambda Award-winning Sky Lounge. he lives in New
York City and teaches at The New School. favorite shampoo to use: Aveda Shampure. favorite shampoo to say: Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific. Nico Bleutge is a writer and literary critic. after 15 years in the hinterland of Swabia he now lives in Berlin. he has published two books of poetry, most recently (2008) fallstreifen. Jennifer Blowdryer’s name is the source of constant double takes by annoying straight people and useless queries of “Is that your real name?” it comes from a punk band she sang for in the late 70s, people! she rocks! currently JB is working on Exit Eating, a book on last meals of just about everybody, from messianic cult members to irate citizens choking to death on recently purloined hotdogs. her published books have an eternal half-life on Amazon, Alibris, and ABE, for low low prices. support people selling books from their house and the remaining addled independant small presses – they all have to chug to the post office all the time. check out her 86ed interviews here. she currently has a restaurant crush on “Salt and Pepper: Spanish and Pakistani Food”, on First Avenue near 14th Street, in NYC, and hopes the Henry Hunan limited Franchise in San Francisco will be there until she dies and has her urn placed at the Neptune Society Columbarium, where she’s making down payments on a nook. she has survived being inadvertantly taboo for a very long time: being humiliated led to humility which led to not giving a shit which of course leads to freedom. Jenny Boully is the author of The Book of Beginnings and Endings, [one love affiar]*, The Body: An Essay, and the chapbook Moveable Types. she teaches at Columbia College Chicago and keeps a blog here. her favorite shampoo is Devacurl NoPoo, but that doesn’t contain shampoo, so maybe that doesn’t count? her favorite shampoo, then, is Philosophy 3-in-1 in any and all scents. Otto Chan is brought to you by the letter O. CAConrad’s favorite shampoo is mixing rosemary oil with his boyfriend’s semen for a rich sheen. he is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. he escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets. he is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2008), advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). he invites you to visit him online here. Ann Cotten is galloping through the prairie of the mind in Berlin with fluffy breeze-ears. see: here and here. Peter Covino is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island. he’s the winner of the 2007 PEN America/Osterweil Award for emerging poets, and the author of Cut Off the Ears of Winter, New Issues (2005) and the chapbook Straight Boyfriend (2001), winner of the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize. recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Columbia, Gulf Coast, Interim, The Paris Review, and European Poets (Graywolf, 2008), among others. he’s also a founding editor of Barrow Street. when he’s feeling rich and deserving, Peter Covino’s favorite shampoo is Avalon Organics Botanicals Peppermint, but the real decadence is the Avalon Organics Peppermint Revitalizing Conditioner with Babassu Oil – 11 fl oz – and you can get it mail-ordered for half-price online, shipping included! Carl Christian Elze. ja! Daniel Falb tries to be a writer and philosopher. he published one volume of poetry in 2003, the next one will appear this year, hopefully. it will be called bancor and deals with impossible currencies. Michael Farrell’s latest book is a raiders guide (Giramondo). he long ago decided having hair was too much like having to create a masterpiece every morning. Johannes CS Frank is the publisher and chief editor of Belletristik. he drinks ink from paper cups. Iain Galbraith was shortlisted for the TLS Poetry Prize 2008, but Ossian doesn’t use toothpaste. Jane Gibian. hurrah! Matthias Goeritz lives currently in New York and doesn’t need shampoo – he shaves his head. Catherine Hales comes from England and lives in the Bohemian Village in Berlin, Germany. her poetry and translations have been published in a number of print and online magazines, and she’s putting together the manuscript of her first collection so that she can get invitations to poetry festivals and stuff. she still thinks digital watches are a really cool invention. Duriel E. Harris, founding member of the Black Took Collective, Poetry Editor for Obsidian, author of Drag (Elixir, 2003), and the forthcoming Amnesiac: Poems (Sheep Meadow Press), is NOT NFL Alum Duriel LaDon Harris, Jr., former Miami Dolphins Wide Receiver, though they may, in sleep, both reach for the same family size bottle of Dove™ Intense Moisture Shampoo. Ernst Herbeck (1920-1991) wrote approximately 1,200 poems from 1960 until his death on September 11, 1991. he lived for most of his adult life in Maria Gugging psychiatric hospital, near Vienna, Austria. most
of his poems were written during meetings with Maria Gugging’s head clinician, Leo Navratil, who encouraged Herbeck to write, and who facilitated the publication of his work. Kevin Killian is a San Francisco novelist, poet, art writer, critic, and playwright. his books include Bedrooms Have Windows, Shy, Little Men, Arctic Summer, Argento Series, I Cry Like a Baby, and Action Kylie. his favorite hair shampoo is Bumble & Bumble Seaweed, or Tonic. Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of poetry: Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems. he has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and five books of nonfiction: Andy Warhol, Cleavage, Jackie Under My Skin, The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Double Talk. his newest book, Hotel Theory, a hybrid of fiction and nonfiction, was published in 2007. he is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and also a Visiting Professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art. his favorite shampoo, currently, is “Shampooing aux huiles essentielles: abricot,” made by Savonnerie de Bormes, in Bormes-les-Mimosas, France. Norbert Lange, born in Eastern Europe during Cold War (1978), he’s exchanged Poland for West Germany (Rhineland), then Berlin, Leipzig, Berlin again (2008). descendant of farmers and landscape gardeners. up to now one book of poetry, Rauhfasern (2005), looking for a raw piece of land. this is his first visit to the States. Sara Larsen co-edits TRY! magazine, a bi-monthly literary/arts zine, with David Brazil. she curates the earthworm reading series, held once a month in her apartment in the Lower Haight of San Francisco, and is founder of earthworm press and projects. chapbooks include doubly circulatory (Artifact Press), 2000 decembers (ampersand press), and most recently, 23 chromosomes (earthworm press). Sara prefers the cheapy, but wonderfully smelly, Whole Foods grapefruit shampoo. Christian Lux, lives in Wiesbaden and is one of two publishers of luxbooks, a German publishing house focusing on American poetry. he is constantly digesting large chunks of poetry books that he didn’t edit, didn’t like but did pay for though. or he kicks back with his co-publisher Annette Kühn watching The Sopranos. Steph Morris translates poetry, but writes prose fiction. he escaped from London to live in Berlin, where Kurt Tucholsky and John Heartfield once lived. Daniel Nester teaches here and lives online here. he alternates between Bumble and Bumble’s seaweed & styling creme combo and Denorex Daily Protection. Peter Nickowitz writes poetry, plays, and literary criticism. his poems have appeared in literary magazines including The Paris Review, Barrow Street, Third Coast, and Slope. his poetry manuscript, Cinema Vernacular, has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, Barrow Street Book Award, and Levis prizes. he is the author of Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill (Palgrave Macmillan 2006). his plays “The Alice Complex” and “Backgammon at the Louvre” have been produced in New York and Los Angeles. he is currently the Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence at Stella Adler Studio of Acting. his favorite shampoos are Ultra Swim after swimming and Aveda Rosemary Mint generally. Danielle Pafunda is the author of My Zorba (Bloof Books 2008), Pretty Young Thing (Soft Skull Press 2005), and the forthcoming Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (Noemi Press 2009). she is co-editor of the longstanding online journal La Petite Zine, a contributing curator at Delirious Hem, and teaches creative writing, English literature, and women’s studies at the University of Wyoming. current shampoo: Ojon. current obsessions: mystery diagnoses and high-altitude baking. more information is available at her blog, Iron Caisson. Ronald Palmer is going to start a whole new life for himself in 2009. he’s going to wake up early and be on time for his date with the dirt track in Golden Gate Park. his favorite shampoo is still this wonderfully smelling Kiehl's Lecithin Conditioning shampoo. he is grateful to Del Ray Cross for letting him gather together so many of his favorite writers here in these pretty color pages! he also sends his thanks to all the writers for their brilliant work in this issue. Ethan Paquin’s most recent publication is a chapbook titled Nineains (Brooklyn: Hand Held Editions, 2008). his favourite shampoo is Dove. Georgina Paul translates. Kevin Prufer’s newest books are Fallen from a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon, 2005) and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), which was named one of the five best poetry books of the year by Publishers Weekly. he is also editor, with Wayne Miller, of New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008) and Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, among others. the recipient of three Pushcart prizes and numerous awards from the Poetry Society of America, he lives in rural Missouri. Nikola Richter lives in Berlin and sometimes feels as though she’s living in New York in the 1970s. here is her blog. she writes poetry, prose, sometimes dialogues, and far too many text messages. her first book of poetry (published in 2004) is called roaming. Lawrence Rinder lives in Ukiah, California. or wishes he did. he uses few hair products but has been quite partial to Aubrey Organics Camomile Luxurious Volumizing Shampoo. Jan Volker Röhnert continues to write poetry, or tries to continue, even in such remote places as Sofia/Bulgaria where he teaches for German Academic Exchange Office, or Weimar/Germany where his daughter, his bookshelves, and Goethe remain. if he doesn’t try to continue his own poetry he tries to continue translating American poetry for Christian Lux’s publishing house. Andre Rudolph has been a subaltern philosopher in the 18th century, before he converted to images in 1975 and settled down in L.E. (Germany), where he rests in peace. his first book of poems will be sprinted in pring at luxbooks. Ulrike Almut Sandig co-edits EDIT, a magazine for new literature, which
in April she is going to quit in favor of her second radio play, her third book and her little overweight dog. she did her M.A. in religion and modern indology and lives in Leipzig, East Germany. JD Schneider invented a language in fourth grade named after his stepmother, and also a code that looked like practicing piano on your desk. nowadays he schemes cultural revolutions, throatsings, and attempts to enact people’s most optimistic conspiracy theories. Sabine Scho shot São Paulo with a photo camera, where she still lives, traveled the world, Lago Argentino, and believes in evolution, weather and money. two volumes of poetry, album (2001), and farben (2008). Katharina Schultens thinks that poetry is actually quite helpful in dealing with Berlin, although she never expected it to come in that handy. she works as an underpaid overachiever in a 9-to-9-job that has nothing to do with poetry whatsoever and is about to settle down somewhat in a tiny apartment in Kreuzberg (the birds over Landwehrkanal cheated her into this). she also bets she’ll finally be able to move on as soon as she has. Tom Schulz, born in the latest socialism in the 70ties. lives now in front of a dark tree in Augsburg/Southern Germany. published five or six books, they never red anyone. Ramsey Scott lives in Berkeley, California. his works have appeared in various print journals—most recently, Mirage #4/Period(ical) and The Massachusetts Review. other writings can be found online at XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics’ Streetnotes and Tarpaulin Sky. lavender-scented baby shampoo is not his favorite; nonetheless, if and when he washes his hair, it’s what he’s using of late. poet and cartoonist Gary Sullivan is the author of PPL in a Depot (Roof, 2008), How to Proceed in the Arts (Faux Press, 2001) and, with Nada Gordon, Swoon (Granary Books, 2001). he has published three issues of a comic book, Elsewhere, and is currently finishing up issue
4. his Herbeck translations-in-progress can be read at
here. Brian Teare lives in San Francisco with his partner, Robert Barber, and four cats: Tallulah, Ms. Ginsberg, Bishop and Vincent. proprietor of Albion Books, he makes books and print ephemera by hand and teaches poetry privately and at the University of San Francisco. Mark Terrill’s grandmother was employed as a babysitter by the Hemingway family in Oak Park, Illinois, and gladly used to explain that the reason Ernest Hemingway wrote “all that crazy stuff” was because she once dropped him on his head as an infant. bypassing academia, Mark Terrill shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman to the Far East and beyond and has lived in Germany since 1984, where he’s been scraping by in various guises, including shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook, postal worker, and poet. a special German Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review, guest-edited by Mark Terrill, includes several SHAMPOO #35 contributors and is forthcoming in spring 2009. Barbara Thimm resides in Frankfurt, Germany. she writes poetry and essays, and translates the former from American to German and vice versa. she not only uses conditioner, but is also aware of having been conditioned in many unfathomable ways. Thien Tran lives in the the carnival city of Cologne. he writes poems and is interested in every kind of expression. his first book of poetry is forthcoming from Verlagshaus J. Frank. David Trinidad’s most recent book of poetry, The Late Show, was published in 2007 by Turtle Point Press. he teaches poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where he co-edits the journal Court Green. his favorite shampoo: Kiehl’s All-Sport Every Day Shampoo (for normal and normal to dry hair types). Jan Wagner has published three and a half collections of poetry, most recently Achtzehn Pasteten (Berlin Verlag, 2007), and lives in Berlin. grown in a city with a skyscraper named both penis and cookie tower, Ron Winkler now lives freelance and on his own free will in Berlin. he is an editor of things, and translator of persons being Americans. his most recent book of poetry is still not printed. his heart goes boom. Uljana Wolf lives in Berlin and Brooklyn, where she is an alien dent. translations of her poems have been published in New European Poetry (Graywolf), Dichten (Burning Deck), and the Chicago Review (forthcoming). Stephanie Young is currently using the smallest amount of shampoo and conditioner as is possible, and only washing her hair every two or three days, because the last time she got her hair cut (ok, and colored, too) the person at the hair place suggested a new shampoo and conditioner and Stephanie was too cowed by the general glossiness and wealth of the hair place to ask how much it cost, and when they rang it up, holy shit. but she was too cowed by the general glossiness and wealth of the hair place to say no, that she couldn’t afford it after all, so she bought the sickeningly expensive shampoo and conditioner, a material and spiritual setback in her plan about the credit cards. she is determined to make the shampoo and conditioner last for a lot of months. this plan is working out so far, thanks to the shampoo-extending benefits of PSSST! the classic dry shampoo Bernadette Mayer mentions in What’s Your Idea of A Good Time? and also Jessica Simpson is purported to use. the PSSST. the worst part of this whole story is that Stephanie has come to believe that the ridiculously unbelievable sickeningly expensive shampoo and conditioner are pretty amazing. they smell like roses.