Women Poets at Barnard has announced that the winner of the 2006 Women Poet”s Prize is Dance Dance Revolution, a book length sequence of poems by Cathy Park Hong. The prize was awarded by poet Adrienne Rich. The Women Poet”s Prize is awarded to an outstanding second book of poetry each year, and carries with it publication in the Spring of 2007.

From the press announcement:
This year”s winner, Cathy Park Hong, 29, is a Korean-American poet whose first collection, Translating Mo”um (2002) won a Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (South Korea), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Verse and other journals, and she’s reported for the Village Voice, New York Times Magazine, and Salon.com. Hong grew up in Los Angeles, received her B.A. from Oberlin, and her M.F.A. from Iowa Writers Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn, works as a freelance journalist, and teaches at The New School. “I’ve long admired Adrienne Rich for her poetry’s unwavering strength and passion, along with her belief that poetry should be tied to the world,” Hong says. “I’m honored that she’s chosen my work and to be part of Barnard’s new series that has already produced powerful second books by women poets.”