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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews

2024 James Welch Prize

Published by Gabi Graceffo

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. 2024 JAMES WELCH PRIZE WINNERS KATERI MENOMINEE from a salt(less) sea to you: return KARA BRIGGS Acknowledgment Two 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 LĂ“PEZ 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 PĹŤ IBE LIEBENBERG quiet wolf

Interview // “Dance Anthem for Freedom and Play”: A Conversation with Elizabeth Hoover 

Published by Alexa Luborsky

“o, yes, there are gaps in all archives, both private and public. The question is what is our responsibility toward those gaps? Sometimes we have an impulse to “fill them in,” but that can perform a double erasure—erasing the erasure, hiding the violence. So can those gaps become sites for the imagination, sites of possibility and play?”—Elizabeth Hoover