The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is pleased to congratulate Jennifer Tseng on winning the 2012 Marick Press Poetry Prize! Her manuscript, Red Flower, White Flower, was selected by poet and writer Derick Burleson and is her second collection of poems. The prize is awarded annually, with the winner receiving $1000, along with the publication of the winning manuscript. Red Flower, White Flower will be released in September 2013.
Jennifer Tseng graduated from Asian American Studies Masters program in 1997, completing the first creative thesis in its history. She worked with UCLA professors David Wong Louie, Valerie Matsumoto and the late Paula Gunn Allen on a collection of poetry, fragments, and stories.
The Center interviewed Tseng in a 2003 issue of CrossCurrents about her experience with the Center and her writing and we are pleased to share that interview here on the Amerasia Journal blog.
Excerpt from Jennifer Tseng Interview in Crosscurrents 2003:
“….to create a poem is to create a world. I do so in order to engineer a logic of my own making, an arena in which records are set straight, confusions clarified, lost things found, strange doors opened. I like a poem to occupy that mysterious place between what is, and what can be, between present day world confinement and timeless world possibility.”
Congratulations, Jennifer!
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