by Publab Alumni | Jul 24, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2018
How to Cook an Egg How to cook an eggwhen you’re lonely:Crack an egg into a pan. It’s the last one you have and you forgot to pick up more at the store. Eat the egg open-face on toast while sitting on the couch, watching the same movie you watched last week. when...
by Publab Alumni | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
As Invisible as Possible: Jose Antonio Villarán on Translating Album of Fences I felt an immediate connection with poet Omar Pimienta when we met at orientation. We were both starting graduate programs at the University of California, San Diego — I was in the MFA...
by Publab Alumni | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
Is it Time to Expand the Concept of Press Freedom? In 2016, a Norwegian writer posted an iconic image from the Vietnam War on Facebook — a photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc naked and screaming, running from an aerial napalm attack that inflicted severe...
by Publab Alumni | Jun 25, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2018
Hot Takes on #obamaportraits SpecialTeams3: zomg did u see how they made Michelle white? Bestieslog: Hated it SWMjersey: i hate these paintings GWMparamus: she’s like, grey… I mean when tf was she ever that? @queer4ula: ikr, the woman is caramel, why they doing her...
by Publab Alumni | May 20, 2025 | Visual Art, Visual Art 2020
Mary Alvarez Art Porfolio Juxtaposing Realities: Structure, Ruin, & Fluidity Garden of Consciousness: Moment of Rupture Mixed Media Collage | 2013 | 11×9 inches Transition from a monument to capitalism to underground garden within the same space. Garden of...