The 2024 James Welch Prize winners are Kateri Menominee and Kara Briggs
Poetry Northwest’s James Welch Prize is awarded for two outstanding poems, each written by an Indigenous U.S. poet.
The prize is named for Blackfeet and Gros Ventre writer James Welch, whose early poems were featured in Poetry Northwest and who went on to become one of the region’s most important writers.
FINALISTS:
Mary Leauna Christensen
Kinsale Drake
Max Early
Chris Hoshnic
Ibe Liebenberg
Casandra Lopez
Malia Maxwell
Michael Wasson
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Kalilinoe Detwiler
Danielle Emerson
Joshua Hinson
Santana Shorty
Yitazba Largo-Anderson
In-Na-Po
Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po—Indigenous Nations Poets—is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. In-Na-Po recognizes the role of poetry in sustaining tribal sovereign nations and Native languages.
