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Miller Williams Poetry Series
The University of Arkansas Press annually selects books for the Miller Williams Poetry Series, awarding the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize each summer. For nearly 25 years, this series has been the cornerstone of the press’s commitment to outstanding new poetry, honoring its cofounder and longtime director, Miller Williams.
Forthcoming
Available for Pre-Order: In the Shade of the Pine
In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825–1876 by Christiana Payne is now available for pre-order. In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of trees both as allies in the fight against climate change and as...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Metal of a Thousand Uses: Mercury Mining in Arkansas, 1930–1946
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of The Metal of a Thousand Uses: Mercury Mining in Arkansas, 1930–1946 by John T. Reynolds. In 1930, a remote corner of southwest Arkansas witnessed the discovery of cinnabar, the ore...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the third, authoritative edition of Frank Stanford's The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You is a Southern Gothic epic unlike...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of In the Shade of the Pine
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825-1876 by Christiana Payne. In the Shade of the Pine explores the cultural and ecological significance of trees...
Eat Like the Hogs Available for Pre-Order
Eat Like the Hogs: A Collection of Favorite Recipes from Razorback Greats is available for pre-order. “Eat Like the Hogs," writes Food Network host and former Razorback Eddie Jackson, "is a one-of-a-kind cookbook that brings Razorback pride to the table with nearly...
News
Julia Kolchinsky’s Poem on The Slowdown
Julia Kolchinsky's poem "I do not mention the war in my birthplace to my six-year-old son but somehow his body knows" was featured on Maggie Smith's...
Holly Mason Badra Interviewed in the Washington Independent
Holly Mason Badra, editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora was interviewed by Holly Smith in the Washington...
Bulletin of Latin American Research Reviews Food Studies in Latin American Literature
Andrea Cadelo has reviewed Food Studies in Latin American Literature in the September 2025 issue of the Bulletin of Latin American Research....
Kirkus Reviews Names The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford One of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
Kirkus Reviews has named The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams, one of the best nonfiction books of 2025. In a starred review,...
Awards
Reviews
Julia Kolchinsky’s Poem on The Slowdown
“Today’s poem made my breath catch in my throat, because it captures so well these beautiful, and sometimes heartbreaking, conversations that parents have with their children.”
Bulletin of Latin American Research Reviews Food Studies in Latin American Literature
“This book is fascinating to read. Given the limited scholarship connecting food and literature in the region, it is an excellent contribution to the field.”
Kirkus Reviews Names The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford One of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
Kirkus Reviews has named The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams, one of the best nonfiction books of 2025. In a starred review, Kirkus hailed McWilliams’s biography of the late Arkansas poet as “the full-throated biography fans have been yearning...
Benjamin R. Cohen Reviews The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford at Public Books
"I knew nearly nothing about the life of Frank Stanford before this new, barnstorming, capacious biography. I knew only the smallest amount about his poetry. I’d heard he died young of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Maybe I saw that on the cover of a tattered...
Barley Child Reviewed in the Colorado Review
“[A] richly imagined and lyrically presented record of the Irish American experience from the pen of someone who knows, who can reliably summon up both its reality and its spirit.”
The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford Receives a Starred Publishers Weekly Review
“It’s a page-turner.”
Mob Rule in the Ozarks Reviewed in the Fort Smith Historical Society Journal
“This well written and meticulously researched volume by Kenneth Barnes is … a significant addition to historical scholarship of the nation”
Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
“The crucial work of Lucile Morris Upton and her successors is needed now more than ever if future generations are to better understand our present.”
Publishers Weekly Reviews Parallax
“Readers will find this a moving and impactful collection.”
