2024 James Welch Prize
selected by Esther Belin
Winners
KATERI MENOMINEE: from a salt(less) sea to you: return
Kateri Menominee (Gnoozhekaning or Bay Mills Ojibwe) is an Indigenous poet from Bay Mills Michigan. Her chapbook, Effigies II, was published by Salt in 2014. A graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts, she is the first recipient of the M. Scott Momaday Award.
KARA BRIGGS: Acknowledgment Two
Kara Briggs is a Sauk-Suiattle citizen and direct Yakama descendant. Briggs was a career journalist and professional writer for many years and has returned to writing poetry through the MFA in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Art.
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Finalists
MAX EARLY: The Stone Shaped by Song
MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN: Ama/Agua
KINSALE DRAKE: First Date
MICHAEL WASSON: Murals Depicting a Lynching in a Courthouse to House the Idaho Legislature
CASANDRA LÓPEZ: I Try to Write About the Sea but Instead Write Another Dead Brother Poem
CHRIS HOSHNIC: Something is rotten in the state of Trust
MALIA MAXWELL: Pō
IBE LIEBENBERG: quiet wolf
We are delighted to feature our 2024 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio. This PDF matches the layout and formatting as our print edition:
POEMS BY 2024 WINNERS & FINALISTS APPEAR IN THE SUMMER & FALL 2024 ISSUE.