Dear Slushies, on this episode we focus on the heart of literary editing and pose the age-old question: “What do you like when you like what you like?” We also break our own rules on this episode of The Slush Pile. Instead of flipping our thumbs at the end of each poem we’re scheduled to […]
Shari Caplan
Shari Caplan
Shari Caplan is the siren behind Advice from a Siren (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems have swum into Gulf Coast, Nonbinary Review, Masque & Spectacle, Tinderbox, Deluge, and more. Caplan’s work has earned her a scholarship to the Home School in Hudson NY, a fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and nominations for A Pushcart […]
Shari Caplan: Laura Mulvey on the (fe)Male Gaze
A bear turned to a lounging place. Instead of unspooling story the fe/male leans in her lack /light against the paradox of phallocentrism. Bear/er of the bloody wound. Subject by being object/ed. To exit/exist, she must thwart the male ailment, fuck Freud. Virgin/Vixenhood fantasies. Ropes hissing the bedframe. All the men I know want to […]
Shari Caplan: Lee Miller on The Female (Gaze)
Don’t! melt until I’ve lit you. Covered to the neck. A sheet to morph you, size the shine on your – don’t! face. Now, topless in the metal chair, like an uncorked bottle. Cross at the elbows, look down at the ants. Don’t – […]
Shari Caplan: Frida Kahlo (on Frida Kahlo) on the Female Gaze
Comparison fragments the green-gold of my body. Nothing compares. As a woman, I see a deer in an arrow forest with my face on and hear palpitating hooves across dry needles. As a deer, I see a woman poking her paint into my wound. What do you see, Diego? You were called Auxochrome the one […]