White poet who wrote as 'Yi-Fen Chou' reportedly took classmate's name

Family of Chou angered that poet Michael Derrick Hudson, who attended the same high school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, used the name as a pseudonym

A controversy continued to boil in the poetry community this week over the revelation that one of the poets included in this year’s Best American Poetry anthology was a using a Chinese pseudonym– even though he is a white man named Michael Derrick Hudson.

Now, the New York Times reports that the pseudonym in question – Yi-Fen Chou – is the name of one of Hudson’s former high school classmates from Fort Wayne, Indiana.