Sophia Galifianakis teaches at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including Plume Poetry, The Greensboro Review, Spillway, and Mezzo Cammin. She was the recipient of the 2015 Mezzo Cammin scholarship, in addition to having received scholarships from Vermont Studio Center […]
Sophia Galifianakis
Sophia Galifianakis: Buriden’s Ass
Buriden’s Ass is a somewhat troubled philosophical thought experiment intended to highlight the deficiency of reason. The hypothesis is that if a hungry ass were placed before two identical bales of hay, it would starve to death for lack of a good reason to choose one bale over the other. We stopped a glance at […]
Sophia Galifianakis: Buriden’s Ass
Buriden’s Ass is a somewhat troubled philosophical thought experiment intended to highlight the deficiency of reason. The hypothesis is that if a hungry ass were placed before two identical bales of hay, it would starve to death for lack of a good reason to choose one bale over the other. We stopped a glance at […]
Sophia Galifianakis
Sophia Galifianakis teaches at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including Plume Poetry, The Greensboro Review, Spillway, and Mezzo Cammin. She was the recipient of the 2015 Mezzo Cammin scholarship, in addition to having received scholarships from Vermont Studio Center […]
Sophia Galifianakis: Of What is Made
I. Loose threads reach down my rib and cross the bone, the cage of ink my body is; and then II. travel through the needle’s gaze: to mend, yes. Of strands and knots, let’s say a history of stitches makes the garment whole. For possibility: III. a hole. What is cataracts, after all, but a […]