Food and Beverage: “Rice for Quapas” by Alison Lubar

About Alison Lubar

Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race femme whose life work has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices to young people.  Their work has been nominated for both the Pushcart & Best of the Net, and they’re the author four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022), queer feast (Bottlecap Press, 2022), sweet euphemism (CLASH!, 2023), and It Skips a Generation (Stanchion, 2023). Their first full-length poetry collection, METAMOURPHOSIS, is forthcoming with fifth wheel press in October 2024. Find out more at http://www.alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.