‘Yellowface In Poetry’: That White Guy Using An Asian Pen Name Was ‘Crass And Offensive’, Argues The Angry Opposition

Brian Spears: “The implication [is] that the writer’s lack of whiteness was, in this case, a help rather than a hindrance to getting the work noticed. I am here to say that Hudson and his defenders are full of it. … In poetry, as in pretty much every other walk of life, there is no greater advantage to publication and all that follows from it than being a straight white male.”