Allison Cobb
@allisoncobb.bsky.social
Writer and poet, environmental and climate justice advocate. https://www.allisoncobb.net/
@davidkirshenbaum.bsky.social Has been publishing the poetry mag Portable Boog Reader for 26 years. I am honored to be in the newest one with my poem "List," but read the whole issue--it's great. wordpress.boogcity.com/2026/06/10/t...
The Portable Boog Reader 13/ Allison Cobb – Boog City
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Vancouver bracing for the 2026 World Cup, w/ residents in the Downtown Eastside being displaced from their homes & the city deploying its biggest police force ever. @sharonnadeem.bsky.social asks *Who Is This World Cup For?* for @karimzidan.com Sports Politika www.sportspolitika.news/p/world-cup-...
Who Is This World Cup For?
As Vancouver gears up for the World Cup, Downtown Eastside residents are being displaced from their homes, and the city is deploying its largest police force ever.
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Poem for June Prayer I wanted to know something beautiful. I opened my eyes. That sprung the first leak. Every boarded-up window washed out of its hole, and light—light being also shadow, which is time, the duration of a refusal— drowned me. I drowned. open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...
Prayer
June 1, 2026
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Just finished reading @dghaskell.bsky.social new book "How Flowers Made Our World." It's the best kind of book, a work of beauty that transforms perception. I now understand flowers as life-shaping beings filled with evolutionary wisdom, which humans respond to out of our own evolutionary wisdom.
Today's poem features a photo taken Hari Viswanathan, my high school classmate from Los Alamos. allisoncobb.substack.com/p/what-it-kn...
What it knows
What it knows
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Today's poem The United States, February 15, 2026 Cut tulip. Alive. Flared wide.
Today's poem, on winter ICE in Portland open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...
February 1, 2026
February 1, 2026
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Poem for today Wish A thousand things times naught. I want that. An empty. The glint from a fork eclipsed in the wet of a mouth. The ash flake having once. I ask the trace of a sea gone extinct. Subtract. The path of a fin from that past. A breath next to last. Nothing. Less.
Today's poem: Dear I like how the picture just gets the deer legs! allisoncobb.substack.com/p/dear
Dear
April 28, 2025
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Today's poem about an incident that happened early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...
Birthed
Birthed
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Here's an action you can quickly sign onto, and it matters. Los Alamos National Laboratory has started producing plutonium cores for nuclear weapons for the first time since the Cold War. Their proposal for expanding fails to meet basic legal requirements. actionnetwork.org/letters/publ...
Public Comment for the Draft Los Alamos National Laboratory Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (Draft LANL SWEIS)
The Draft LANL SWEIS is currently open for public comment until April 10th! Please fill out your information to the right to submit a comment! A template is provided for your convenience. Located in ...
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The Trump administration is deleting resources and denying the reality that toxic air pollution makes some communities sicker than others.
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Reinstate Black History Month, Pride Month, and other cultural events!
Google’s quiet removal of cultural events from their calendars last year is part of a broader trend of tech companies and businesses catering to far-right and extreme groups by rolling back inclusivit...
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I've been feeling sustained by Joy Harjo's words open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...
Calling the spirit back
Joy Harjo's words
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