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Shari Caplan

Episode 88: Life on Screen, or “Podcats”

April 9, 2021 by PBQ Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Shari Caplan

July 31, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Shari Caplan: Laura Mulvey on the (fe)Male Gaze

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Shari Caplan

Shari Caplan: Lee Miller on The Female (Gaze)

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

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 –   […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Shari Caplan

Shari Caplan: Frida Kahlo (on Frida Kahlo) on the Female Gaze

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Shari Caplan

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