“Put It To Rest” Features the Submissions with the highest views
Newsletter 26
Put It To Rest was founded by Lindsay Soberano Wilson three years ago with the publication of I Call This Trauma (originally published in FreshVoices22 by the Canadian League of Poets), which stands as a testament to the benefit of sharing trauma through art as a form of healing.
It’s arduous work
carrying this thing around
like an old wet blanket
but I think I’m finally comprehending
that it needs to be housed in
a museum and framed
and reframed and observed and
studied and, well, displayed
like an artifact
I Call This Trauma is featured in Lindsay’s forthcoming second book of poetry Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues: Poems for Healing (Prolific Pulse Press LLC, 2024), which explores mental health and finds peace in painful, messy, shameful parts of life unearthed at inconvenient times.
Do you have a story to tell that you need to put to rest? Is your writing raw and vulnerable? Put It To Rest is accepting First-Person Stories and Poetry about life experiences that have weighed on your mental health which you wish to explore through writing. House your work here to Put It To Rest.
In Honour of our third anniversary, Put It To Rest curated submissions based on the highest views.
Thank you to all of our writers who touched our hearts and minds!
Poetry
GB Rogut What You Took and The Monster Within
Lindsay Soberano Wilson Lost Inside the Pandemic and When Purple Rain Is Falling As Dove’s Cry, Let’s Go Crazy In The Sky…
Theodore McDowell The Last Time I Saw Kat and To a Vietnam Victim
Margie Willis Spatts in the Cradle
Robin Christine Honigsberg Goodbye Dear Sister
Anthony O’Dugan Touch Me
Melissa Steussy We Met At the Beach
Aimée Brown Gramblin Scribbling My Way Out of Purgatory
JD Graham Impermanence
Carolyn Riker You Are Special and Once We Were Friends
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Open for Submissions on Mental Health
Put It To Rest celebrates the light after the rain and inspires writers to explore their voices to tell their stories and finally “put them to rest.”
Put It To Rest accepts personal essays, poetry, and short stories about life experiences that have weighed on your mental health and that you wish to explore through writing as a therapeutic endeavor. House your work here to Put It To Rest where you can grow as a writer and eventually be featured on Our Writers page.
I am happy to be an editor and help others grow their audience and improve their writing. I want to also help those who consider themselves new to writing to tell their story and reap the benefits of this exercise.
I want to help you to tell your story.
Please follow the submission guidelines so we can do so together!
Lindsay Soberano Wilson is a Pushcart Prize Nominee for Poetry for the poem “The Japanese Red Maple” in her debut poetry collection Hoods of Motherhood: A Collection of Poems (Prolific Pulse Press LLC, 2023) available at online bookstores. Recent publications include Fine Lines Literary Journal and Fevers of the Mind 8: Inspire Me. Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir explores how travel shaped her Jewish Canadian identity. Her poems and articles have appeared in FreshVoices, Embrace of Dawn, Poetry 365, PoetryPause, Quills Erotic Canadian Poetry Magazine, Canadian Woman Studies Journal, and Poetica Magazine. Find her on Medium, Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok.
