“My Twinkie Poem” and “Goldacre” by Monica Youn

An essay titled “My Twinkie Poem” by faculty member Monica Youn appears in The Paris Review. The essay discusses “Goldacre,” a poem by Youn that appears in The Paris Review Summer issue:

I wrote “Goldacre”—my “Twinkie” poem—in the wake of the brouhaha surrounding last year’s Best American Poetry anthology, when the white writer Michael Derrick Hudson published a poem under the name Yi-Fen Chou, sparking a media frenzy. As one of the few #ActualAsianPoets to have had a poem (“March of the Hanged Men,” first published in The Paris Review) included in the anthology, I was unwillingly sucked into the whole mess. But after my initial queasiness subsided, the controversy stirred up a familiar set of questions for me.

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