Julie Elise Landry's poem "At Bay" received an Honorable Mention for the University of New Orleans 2023 Vassar Miller Poetry Award.
Julie will be honored at the Spring 2023 Awards Ceremony for the UNO Department of Language & Literature as well as the Creative Writing Workshop MFA program's Spring Awards Banquet.
The contest was open to all graduate students at UNO.
Distinguished judge Carol Jennings praised how Landry's poem "is seeing the future and trying to hold it back at the same time."
The 2023 Vassar Miller Poetry Award winner is Karen Chio. Honorable Mention also went to Jessica Bowdoin.
"At Bay" is a love poem about fear addressed to the poet's husband.
Julie will be honored at the Spring 2023 Awards Ceremony for the UNO Department of Language & Literature as well as the Creative Writing Workshop MFA program's Spring Awards Banquet.
The contest was open to all graduate students at UNO.
Distinguished judge Carol Jennings praised how Landry's poem "is seeing the future and trying to hold it back at the same time."
The 2023 Vassar Miller Poetry Award winner is Karen Chio. Honorable Mention also went to Jessica Bowdoin.
"At Bay" is a love poem about fear addressed to the poet's husband.