By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Michael Derrick Hudson is under scrutiny after using the name Yi-Fen Chou when submitting a poem that made it into the annual “Best American Poetry” anthology. The discovery and fallout has the poetry community up in arms and raises the question of race. Hudson’s poem “The Bees, the Flowers, […]
Asian American poetry keeps evolving
By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly By the late 1890s, Asian Americans were already leaving their mark on the American literary