Hugos artists

Pro Artists: Kuri Huang did a book cover I liked. Galen Dara hasn't updated their website in ages but seems to have a bunch of new work on their instagram so I'm going to assume they did something qualifying. Similarly, I like Alyssa Winans' stuff; is any of it from 2024, who knows, but odds seem good. I recall in past years that people sometimes put together webpages or "lightboxes" of qualifying art from the year but I couldn't find anything like that for 2024.

Fan Artists: I took a quick look through the spreadsheet and Geneva Bowers' stuff is awesome. I also really like Autun Purser's ecology illustrations, and Michelle Morrell seems to have designed a bunch of cross-stitch patterns for Seattle Worldcon, which I guess is somewhat like the sort of "service art" I'm usually dubious about awarding but in this case seems cute and fun.

Hugo poems

I wasn't going to attempt to nominate poems, but then a friend mentioned a hope of going through the spreadsheet poems, and I was like, self, why am *I* not even looking at the spreadsheet poems, and I had a weird little moment of, wait, am I intimidated by poetry? Do I feel unqualified to read poetry? That seemed incorrect - I keep a file of favorite poems. I occasionally write poems. Maybe I feel like I don't know what to make of *speculative* poetry? That also didn't sound quite right, I have no problem thinking about, say, Le Guin's poetry. Strange Horizons publishes poetry so I tried checking out some of their 2024 pieces and possibly part of the problem is that I just don't *like* a lot of poetry. (Although... I also don't like a lot of stories. Not actually sure if the proportion is different.)

Anyways here's some poems from the spreadsheet I liked.

The Last Voyage: Island Relocation Program, Steve Wheat.

sunday in atlanta, Kelsey Day. I'm not sure this is speculative. Also I'm not sure it's a poem and not a comic. Powerful piece, though.

Gaia Sings the Body Electric, Jie Venus Cohen.

there are no taxis for the dead, Angela Liu.

The Sail, Ian Li.

The Quickening Rachel Pittman. Is *this* speculative?

the office//the after, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey. How about this, is this speculative? Maybe I don't know what makes poetry speculative or not.

The Lost Dead World Thing, Mari Ness.

Dodging the Bullet, Lisa M. Bradley.

Change Your Mind, Gwendolyn Maia Hicks.

A War of Words, Marie Brennan.

There were 62 things on the list, although some of them weren't available online, so I probably read more like... 55? ish? And ended up liking about one in five?

I have tentatively picked some that I think I'll nominate although I would like to revisit this list in a day or two and see which ones I still remember, or which ones still grab me on rereading.