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Chris Hoshnic

Chris Hoshnic is a Navajo poet, playwright, and filmmaker, who has been honored with the 2023 Hayden’s Ferry Review Indigenous Poets Prize and as a finalist for the Poetry Northwest James Welch Prize. His fellowships include the Native American Media Alliance’s Writers Seminar, UC Berkeley Arts Research Center, and the Diné Artisan and Authors Capacity Building Institute, with support from Indigenous Nations Poets, Playwrights Realm, Tin House, and others.

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Winter 2025

The Danger Is Clear

By Chris Hoshnic

& twenty years pass a lick of Freedom pressures the current against an imagine against language In the husks & twenty years passI reconstruct He fought ’til the end in […]