Artwork by Cynthia Chapman
Lindsay Soberano Wilson
Poet, Teacher, Editor, Memoirist and Essayist
Lindsay Soberano Wilson is a Pushcart Prize Nominee for Poetry for the poem "The Japanese Red Maple" in Hoods of Motherhood: A Collection of Poems (Prolific Pulse Press LLC, 2023). Recent publications include Fine Lines Literary Journal and Fevers of the Mind 8: Inspire Me.She is excited to announce that her second collection of poems is forthcoming, entitled BREAKING UP WITH THE COBALT BLUES: Poems For Healing (2024) with the same amazing small press--Prolific Pulse Press! Lindsay's second poetry book explores mental health and finds peace in painful, messy, shameful parts of life unearthed at inconvenient times. The lyrical poems, shed light on hard truths, suicide, abuse, intergenerational trauma, addiction, and grief with the message of resilience to “dance through the dark.”
Hoods of Motherhood:
A Collection of Poems
(Prolific Pulse Press LLC.)
A Jewish Canadian granddaughter of Romanian Holocaust survivors and
Spanish Moroccan immigrants compiles a bittersweet portrayal about becoming a mother.
~ A Book For Anyone and Everyone Who Ever Had To Learn
To Love Themselves The Way They Love Others. ~
Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir explores Soberano-Wilson’s relationship to her culture, tradition, and homeland, while also reflecting on how she internalizes terrorism and antisemitism. For example, the author reflects on the impact that being in Israel in 2004 for Yom Hazikaron (remembrance day) had on her. She also integrates how terrorism impacts Jews in the Diaspora by sharing the tragic story of Marnie Kimelman (1972-1990), a Toronto Jewish youth murdered in Tel Aviv by terrorists. The chapbook is dedicated to her memory and to all victims of terror.
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
"Lindsay Soberano Wilson's Casa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir is a beautifully written collection of poems and prose, flirting with place, identity, and the human condition. For those of us who aren't Jewish, we are given a window into realities, carefully crafted and shared with the utmost honesty."
Dwayne Morgan
Writer.Speaker.Connector
Scarborough Walk of Fame Inductee
In her small but packed Casa de mi Corazón, we watch Lindsay Soberano-Wilson grow up and into herself. She mainly concerns herself with the question of identity and how it shapes belonging.
The first half of the collection, composed of ten poems and a short passage of prose, “devoured in timelessness” (“The Western Wall,” line 10), explores her reckoning with identity and her learning of otherness.
She opens her poem “Human Kind” with,
I am a Jewish woman
Jew-ish a type of ish
like relish, wish, cherish
What is this label stapled onto my fate?
See the full Review: Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
by Rion Levy emerging poet based in Toronto in the League of Canadian Poets.
"In Casa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir, Lindsay Soberano Wilson demonstrates the beauty and optimism of travel writing in both poetry and prose. Soberano-Wilson further acknowledges the benefits and education of travel and the importance of experiences outside the safety of one's home. The poems provide a rich comparison of modern travel to past history, maintaining a positive tone while recognizing the good and bad of Jewish history. The author allocates her experiences as if giving gifts, not bragging but sharing, with the open-mindedness of curiosity and love, of observation and understanding. The prose pieces further illustrate the perspective of gaining wisdom through new experience, both in terms of geography as well as identity. Soberano Wilson exemplifies strong, specific imagery, and she proves the wonderful impact of travels and self-rumination culminating in an outlook of hope. Casa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir is in itself a service of luscious landscapes and a cheerful chant for a more peaceful and loving future."
By D. L. Pearlman
Winner of the 2019 Dogfish Head
Poetry Prize for his poetry collection
"Normal They Napalm the Cottonfields"
winner of the 2019 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize