On March 28, 2024, diode poetry journal published Julie Elise Landry's interview with Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin in the journal's 17th anniversary edition.

The interview focuses on Pelegrin's revision process. It was conducted via email in Fall 2022 for Carolyn Hembree’s course on poetry revision at the University of New Orleans in the Creative Writing Workshop MFA program.

diode poetry journal publishes "poetry that excites and energizes, and that uses language that crackles and sparks." Pelegrin’s poetry has appeared several times in diode poetry journal, and her chapbook Our Lady of the Flood was published by offshoot independent press Diode Editions.

Landry said, "I am honored that Alison Pelegrin shared her time and her reflective brilliance with me. I kept her book Hurricane Party close at hand for four years, reading from it as often as my own Katrina memories would allow, and I read the whole book in the wake of the 2016 Louisiana floods. Though I am not someone who leaves marks or notes in my books, I have flags on the pages of Hurricane Party to guide me quickly to my favorite poems."

Pelegrin has authored five poetry collections, including Our Lady of Bewilderment, published by LSU Press in 2022.

Backchannels Journal published Julie Elise Landry's poem "Everything, the Crumbs" in the April 2023 Poetry Edition of its online literary and arts journal. This is the first "all poetry" edition of Backchannels, which publishes new editions every quarter.

According to the publication's website, "By definition, a backchannel is a secondary, covert route for information; or, in linguistics, a backchannel is a sound or gesture one person makes to encourage the speaker to continue. Backchannels embraces both of these definitions, as we are committed to providing a unique route for writing and art publishing while encouraging all artists to continue their stories and interact with each other’s stories."

​"Everything, the Crumbs" is a poem about the poet's childhood bedroom—and the girl who lived there first.

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.

After decades of quietly writing poems as an unexamined background process, Julie Elise Landry applied to the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop in October 2021. She was accepted into the Master of Fine Arts Poetry program five months later and begins her first semester in Fall 2022.

"After years of aiming for excellence in my prose, I need to accord the same attention to my poetry," said Landry. "I want to write the sorts of poems that I love: ones that tell meaningful stories and sharpen subtle points, that change the rhythms of our breath, that feel like songs pulled whole, sublime, immutable from the depths of the earth. I aspire to learn and to grow in this arena."

Landry will graduate no sooner than Spring 2025; her journey through the three-year program may take longer, however, given that she will remain a full-time employee while she studies and writes.

The newly self-proclaimed poet hopes to see you at open mic poetry readings in the near future.

Long-time readers will find much to love here: vivid settings, a gripping plot, and the comfort of some returning characters. In his self-professed "most ambitious book to date," Nickens tells an adult story suitable for children, progressing the larger narrative while delivering another memorable fantasy.

"The Lost Prairie BBQ" is the third novel in a loosely-connected series of books, and it is available for purchase on Amazon.

Julie Elise Landry edited the novel and served as a publishing and marketing consultant.

​Teo Skaffa designed the cover art.