ARAH KO
Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i. Her work is published or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Frontier Poetry, Ninth Letter, Threepenny Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University where she edited for The Journal. Arah is a current Poetry Editor at Surging Tide Magazine.
“The absence of fear is a failure
of imagination. Have you ever dipped
beneath the ocean’s surface?”
“…I’m drawn again and again to how convicting the second person can be. It feels as though the work is speaking so directly through that flexible “you” that when I encounter the second-person in another writer’s work, I sit up straighter, as though I can feel the piece reading me back.”
October 8, 2023