News & Updates

Selected media, publications and reviews

Excert from Crave: Notes of a Nuclear Colonist in the Strange Wests issue of About Place.

Review of Daniela Molnar’s Chorus in Tinderbox (2024)

Feature in Oregon Arts Watch (2024)

“Poetry as ecstatic geology,” review of Susan Tichy’s North|Rock|Edge, Jacket2 (2024)

“For Love,” Poetry Daily (2023)

“How to Be in the World,” interview with Ashlee Laielli in Lunch Ticket (2022)

Review of Plastic in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (ISLE) (2022)

“You are my garbage: The unbearable intimacy of waste,” About Place Journal (2022)

Review of Plastic in Terrain (2022)

CNN Downside UP Podcast “What if plastic had never been invented?” (2022)

Plastic wins Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction (2022)

Plastic wins Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction (2022)

Review of Plastic: An Autobiography, Nano Riley, Society of Environmental Journalists (2022)

Review of Plastic: An Autobiography, Frank Kaminski at Resilience.org (2021)

Essay: “Babies are pooping plastic: Our system is sick—how we can heal” (2021)

“Precarious reality: A review of Allison Cobb’s Plastic: An Autobiography,” Split Lip Magazine (2021)

“Books by New Mexico Authors,” Santa Fe New Mexican (2021)

“Thirteen new books about pollution—and how to fight it,” The Revelator (2021)

“Plastic Passion,” conversation with Alex Tatarsky in the Poetry Project Newsletter (2021)

Poems from “After We All Died” translated into Polish and published in Magazyn Wizje (2021)

“Allison Cobb: Plastic: An Autobiography,” review by Rachel Blau DuPlessis in Restless Messengers (2021)

“There’s a Great Future in Cobb’s Plastic: An Autobiography,” review by Ethan Fugate in Boog (2021)

“Allison Cobb: Positive Twist,” Invitation to the Species podcast (2021)

“Infinite Entanglements in Allison Cobb’s Plastic: an Autobiography” in Kenyon Review (2021)

“Allison Cobb discusses facing existential threats,”Facing the Future podcast (2021)

“Plastic: An Autobiography Explores Our Relationship With Trash That Never Decays,” Los Alamos Daily Post (2021)

“The Absolute Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives,” Interview with Jefferson Public Radio (2021)

“Amen to Los Alamos native’s take on plastic consequences,” Albuquerque Journal (2021)

Essay: “It’s not just sea turtles. Plastic is killing people of color too.” (2021)

“Entangled with Plastic” podcast on This Sustainable Life (2021)

“Allison Cobb’s White Whale,” interview with Montana Public Radio (2021)

New Books Network podcast on Plastic: an Autobiography (2021)

Excerpt from Plastic: an Autobiography, On the Seawall (2021)

Excerpt from Plastic: an Autobiography, Lithub (2021)

Interview with Brian Teare, Lambda Literary (2021)

Plastic: What We Eat and Breathe, column in The Progressive, syndicated to 50 papers (2021)

Books Q and A with Deborah Kalb (2021)

Plastic: an Autobiography reviewed in the Oregonian (2021)

Plastic: an Autobiography starred review in Booklist (2021)

Plastic: an Autobiography reviewed in Kirkus Reviews (2021)

“What my mom said after she died” in Lit magazine (2020)

Review of Chris Nealon’s The Shore at Lambda Literary (2020)

“New Writing through the Anthropocene,” PennSound podcast with Brian Teare (2019)

“A Fact I Work Like Jewelry,” review of Green-Wood in Heavy Feather Review (2019)

Folio of poems and interview with Lisa Olstein at Tupelo Quarterly (2019)

“Not Flowers But Bone,” review of Green-Wood by Tracy Zeman in Kenyon Review (2018)

Review of Green-Wood by Peter Myers in Iowa Review (2018)

“On the central tensions of being,” interview with Christy Davids in Jacket 2 (2017)

Review of After We All Died by Stephen Collis Jacket2 (2017)

Review of After We All Died by Joshua Schuster Jacket2 (2017)

“There is rain in me” and “You want it darker” in Boog Reader (2017)

“On Loss,” Delaware Poetry Review (2017)

Interview with Rob McLennan (2017)

“A Nasty Woman Has a Vision,” in Brooklyn Rail (2016)

“It Has a Place for Me as Living,” review of Sue Landers’ Franklinstein at Jacket 2 (2016)

Three poems at Across the Margin (2016)

“Drone Poem” in Tripwire (2016)

Four poems in The Brooklyn Rail (2015)

Three poems in Across the Margin (2015)

“On Documentary Poetics” essay with Kaia Sand at Essay Press (2015)

“What the businessman said,” Poem-a-day, Academy of American Poets (2014)

“Poem of force,” in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (2014)

“Garbage” The Volta (2014)