On the Collected Works of Yi-Fen Chou

Fellow poets and lovers of poetry, take heart—our art is relevant again! Though not necessarily for the right reasons.

The 2015 edition of the Best American Poetry series, recently published by Scribner and edited by the Native-American writer Sherman Alexie, includes a work by Yi-Fen Chou. When Alexie selected the poem, he believed that Yi-Fen Chou was, as he put it, “a brown-skinned poet.” But Yi-Fen Chou is actually Michael Derrick Hudson, a white dude from Indiana.