How a white Indiana poet used a Chinese pseudonym to get published

The World | Sep 8, 2015
Recently, the poetry world became embroiled in a scandal when it was discovered that one of the selections for this year's Best of American Poetry, written by Yi-Fen Chou, was actually from a white guy named Michael Derrick Hudson who used the Yi-Fen Chou pen name.

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