Heal Together
The Internet may have irreversibly altered the forms activism takes, but there is still room for change. Christopher Soto reflects on activist frameworks used in 2015 and offers their strategies…
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Yi-Fen Chou
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Cheaters Sometimes Win
While the poetry world continues to grapple with the Best American Poetry controversy, perhaps its worth considering why anyone would try to game the system. Theodore Ross over at The…
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I’m Chinese, and Sherman Alexie Chose Me
As a writer, have I ever benefited from being Chinese?
An Open Letter to Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Dear Aimee, So the latest thing (why is there always a latest thing) is that a white man used a Chinese name to submit poems that were then chosen for Prairie Schooner and then…
Yellowface in Poetry
There’s a storm in the poetry world, this one set off by the bio in Best American Poetry 2015 of Michael Derrick Hudson, who has been publishing under the name Yi-Fen…