Pip Culture, by Sophia Noulas

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

The prose poems herein are maps of mistakes we may face doing our best to get in our own way.

To experience Pip Culture is to bite into a fruit, only for the seeds to burst against your teeth. A bitter, unpleasant, and universal experience... only for us to keep eating? Most disappointments stem from misunderstandings learned when we are young, and growing up can warp into unlearning bad habits like entertaining hopes, having expectations, and believing stories overheard at the bar.

It is both nothing that you have been promised, yet everything you would expect.

Sophia Noulas (she/her/yours) is a Greek American writer who sleeps in Brooklyn. Pip Culture is her debut collection, featuring work previously published in Passengers Journal, High Shelf Press, No Contact Mag, and elsewhere. If you see her wandering around at 2 am, Please hand her a Cup o’Noodles or some Halal Guys. Follow her on Instagram @sophia_noulas