I have couple of thoughts on this controversy, mostly related to one Michael Derrick Hudson...
His act of publishing under a Chinese name just for a few more publication credits is crass and shallow...if not pathetic. It's not like he was a truly oppressed poet who needed to do this in order to be published. The Poetry Foundation website features a couple of his poems under his real name. Just a brief Googling showed published poems online in Painted Bride Quarterly and Boulevard...probably many more magazines and sites have published him under his real name. This doesn't seem the act of desperately un- or under-published poet.
My guess is Michael Derrick Hudson has torpedoed whatever 'minor career' in poetry he hoped to have. Henceforward he probably will need more/new pseudonyms to publish under. Going forward I doubt editors will clamoring to publish this knucklehead under his own name or under Yi-Fen Chou.
Finnegan
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