Sophia Galifianakis teaches at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Plume,Western Humanities Review, Arts & Letters, the Hollins Critic, Greensboro Review, and other journals. She has received scholarships from the West Chester Poetry Conference, Poetry by the Sea, and the Vermont Studio Center.
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Bema
In Greek it means step. In church
it separates me from the nave, where the quiet
sit and wait. Behind the screen
the altar boys, age twelve, ar…
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