2023 James Welch Prize

Winners

J. K. Tsosie: Brown Anthropocene

J. K. Tsosie is Diné (Navajo tribe)—Bitterwater Clan born for the Manygoats Clan. He is an engineer/scientist by trade and a current student in the MFA Creative Writing in Fiction program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). He currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he attends the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Kalehua Kim: Hā

Kalehua Kim is a Native Hawaiian poet living in the Seattle area. Her poems have appeared in Belletrist, Calyx, and ‘Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal.

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Finalists

Selected by poets from the board and advisory committee of In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets) with the editors of Poetry Northwest

Ibe Liebenberg • Annie Wenstrup • Tacey Atsitty • Cheyanne Lozano • Mary Leauna Christensen • Aimee Inglis • m.s. RedCherries • Nicole Wallace

POEMS BY 2023 WINNERS & FINALISTS APPEAR IN THE SUMMER & FALL 2023 ISSUE