Pass an Array of Objects to Controller

I am adding a select all function to my API, the user will have the ability to either select 1, 2, 3, etc items or select all and submit them as a form to a controller method that will then publish each item which creates text files and so on.

The old way i had written each item had a button attached to it by pressing the button on each individual item, would fire the publish method.

<a class="btn btn-default btn-success" href = "{{action('ObitController@publish', [$obit->id])}}">Publish</a></td>

I would like to be able to use the same publish method, and pass it an array of objects, i have added a checkbox to each table row item, and a script that selects all. when I hit submit i have the publish method dd($request->all());

the dump is showing the proper checkbox amount has been checked but no other information is being passed to the method.

here is the view blade table

<tbody>
        <?php $date = new DateTime('tomorrow') ?>
        {!! Form::open(['URL' => '/publish', 'class' => 'obit-form']) !!}
        @foreach ($obits as $obit)
            @if ($obit->published_at == $date)
                    <tr>
                        <td>{!! Form::checkbox('publish', $obit->id, false) !!}</td>
                        <td>{{$obit->first_name}} {{$obit->last_name}}
                            @if($obit->veteran_flag == true)
                                <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-flag"></span>
                            @endif
                            @if($obit->photo != null )
                                <span class = "glyphicon glyphicon-picture"></span>
                            @endif
                        </td>
                        <td>{{ $obit->created_at->format('M d Y - g:i A')}}</td>
                        <td>{{$obit->published_at->format('M d Y')}}</td>
                        {{--<td><a class="btn btn-default  btn-success" href = "{{action('ObitController@publish', [$obit->id])}}">Publish</a></td>--}}
                    </tr>
            @endif
        @endforeach
        </tbody>
    </table>
            <button class="btn btn-success btn btn-success">Submit</button>
        {!! Form::close() !!}

Controller Method I am trying to hit

public function publish(Request $request)
    {
        dd($request->all());
        $obit = Obit::findOrFail($request->all());
        $obit->publishObitFile($obit);
        $obit->status = 'published';
        $obit ->update($request->all());
        return redirect('dashboard');
    }

once i can pass the publish method an array of objects that have been selected I want to loop over each object and run the publishObitFile() method on each object