Women Making Soup Together

Announcement Time!
Friend of the mag, Rachel Turney, is offering
some sweet perks for pre-ordering her debut chapbook,
Women Making Soup Together (Vinegar Press).
Check out the details below! We can’t wait to read our copy.

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Women Making Soup Together available via preorder with Vinegar Press

pinch your finger to keep the tears in 
rip out my brain’s appetite center
a little scoop of my brain matter
am I the wrong kind of woman
smoke and sunshine

Post your poem and tag me on Instagram @turneytalks. I would love to read your work! 

Preorder Women Making Soup Together by Rachel Turney at: VinegarPress.org

Perk for interested drip lit readers: Preorder a print copy of my chapbook before the launch on February 14th. Send me an email mentioning you saw this notice in drip lit and have ordered the book. I will send you a handmade bookmark/card including a typewriter poem. Don’t forget to tell me your snail-mail address! 

Happy cooking!  

Author Bio: 

Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is an educator and artist located in Denver. Her poems, research articles, reviews, and drawings can be found in a variety of publications. Rachel is passionate about immigrant rights, teacher support, and empowering other artists. She is a Writers’ Hour prize winner and Best-of-the-Net nominee. Her photography appears on a few magazine covers. Rachel runs the popular online reading series Poetry (in Brief). She is on staff at Bare Back Magazine with her monthly column Friday Night in the Suburbs. She reads for The Los Angeles Review. 

 Website: turneytalks.com 
Instagram: @turneytalks 
Bluesky: rachelturney 

Advanced praise for Women Making Soup Together:  

Women Making Soup Together reimagines the kitchen as a site of female lineage, ritual, and survival. In poems where “two women walk down to the water” and a single ceramic spoon rest holds imagined histories, cooking becomes an act of solidarity and shared labor. Rachel Turney’s lyric voice is intimate and precise, attentive to grief, care, and the work women carry in solidarity. This collection unfolds as a warm bowl of ars poetica in awe of women making “something from nothing" while also asking whether writing is ever enough.
-Candice Kelsey, author of Another Place Altogether

Nothing short of delectable, Turney's poetry embraces feminine autonomy, struggles, and connection through flavorful motifs. You will savor every word and find yourself scraping the bottom of the bowl for more.
-Bethany Cutkomp, Editor of Thomasonian

Women Making Soup Together rouses the jaded appetite of one who has seemingly read it all, introducing you to new concoctions of letters that satisfy and stimulate. As the reader, you are stripped and fed by her movement, through arrangement and contextual direction. Rachel does not hold back or mince words. Hers is a voice of powerful penetration, through line after line of intrapersonal thoughts and exterior feelings. Women Making Soup Together is truly a read for anyone seeking to savor something more tender, robust and bare. 
-Cierra G. Rowe, author of The Devil Bakes a Cake for His Wife