On Trauma and Taking Good Care

Author Jehanne Dubrow recommends rituals to help protect yourself when writing about trauma.
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Author Jehanne Dubrow recommends rituals to help protect yourself when writing about trauma.
“I’m a firm believer these days in discomfort on the page, whether it’s sonic, tonal, metaphorical, or imagistic.” —Keetje Kuipers, author of Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
Jehanne Dubrow offers advice to writers wondering whether they are ready to process traumatic experience on the page.
“Write one poem at a time and resist knowing where you are going.” —Arthur Sze, author of Into the Hush
“I was playing, trying to make something I liked, something no one else had already made for me.” —Rachel Trousdale, author of Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem
“This isn’t writer-stuff, it’s life-stuff that bears on the poems.” —Lesley Wheeler, author of Mycocosmic
“I had many beginnings and several endings, and I tried to arrange the poems in a way that might ask why that was.” —Austin Araujo, author of At the Park on the Edge of the Country
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Originally an umbrella site for literary journals, this book publisher looks to the wider writing community for inspiration, camaraderie, and collaborators in the art that it makes and promotes.