Exhibitionist by Shari Caplan

Praise for Exhibitionist

“How can I see a woman through her dark veil while the giant eyes of men fluoresce and skew the angles? In one of Shari Caplan’s collages a cut gem opens its eye above a headless, armless female torso: caught you looking. In her poems her eye like a searchlight traverses a world part carnival, part gallery, part strip club, where ponies trollop around their stripper poles, where there’s a different girl on every horse, where every gaze seeks to pin down and define, every object eludes, subverts, and gazes back, and amid the contest she illuminates possibilities of intimacy and the shared constructions of love: We descend, new man, new bride, agreeing/to bring only ourselves into the cave..”.—Martha McCollough, author of Wolf Hat Iron Shoes

About the Author

Shari Caplan (she/her) is a poet, actor, and event producer with a passion for enlivening our collective imaginative potential. She’s the author of “The Red Shoes; a Phantasmagoric Ballet on Paper,” (Lambhouse Books, 2023), and “Advice from a Siren” (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). A wearer of many tophats, she has produced and performed in “The Poetry Circus,” “The Fairy Tale Poetry Walking Tour,” and other cross-pollinations, including the Boston chapter of The Poetry Brothel, an international immersive cabaret series (founded by The Poetry Society of New York). Shari’s work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sinister Wisdom, Grimoire, Angime, Drunk Monkeys, and others and has earned her a scholarship to The Home School in Hudson, a fellowship to The Vermont Studio Center, as well as nominations for a Bettering American Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rhylsing Award. She graduated with an MFA from Lesley University in 2014. Find her work, workshops, monthly love letter to creativity, and upcoming events at ShariCaplan.com.