Barley Child: Poems by Greg Rappleye—winner of the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been reviewed in the Colorado Review by Robert Dunsdon....
Poetry and Literature
The 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been Awarded to Samuel Piccone
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been awarded to Samuel Piccone by series...
The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford Receives a Starred Publishers Weekly Review
The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. “McWilliams does a remarkable job...
Now Available! The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce that The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams, is now available. When...
Now Available! Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora
Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora, edited by Holly Mason Badra is now available. Sleeping in the Courtyard brings...
Saba Keramati wins 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize
Saba Keramati has won the 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize for her collection Self-Mythology. Housed and managed by the University of New...
Publishers Weekly Reviews Parallax
Parallax by Julia Kolchinsky, a finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, has been reviewed in Publishers Weekly. “How does one stay...
Greg Rappleye part of LitHub’s University Press Feature
Greg Rappleye, author of Barley Child and winner of the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, was interviewed as part of Lit Hub's new feature "Art,...
Kirkus Starred Review for The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford
Kirkus Reviews has awarded the forthcoming The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford a Kirkus Star. Texas State University historian McWilliams has...
Major Jackson reads “Field Guide as Sonnet” by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar
Major Jackson read A. D. Lauren-Abunassar's poem "Field Guide as Sonnet" on his American Public Media show The Slowdown. Listen here: ...
Red Ocher Reviewed in the Colorado Review
Grace Johnson has reviewed Red Ocher in the Colorado Review. “Jessica Poli’s debut collection, Red Ocher, stirs with its reverential questioning of...
To Let the Sun by John Allen Taylor is Now Available
To Let the Sun by John Allen Taylor, a finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available. John Allen Taylor’s debut poetry...
Now Available: Parallax by Julia Kolchinsky
Parallax by Julia Kolchinsky, a finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available. Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical...
Alison Thumel named a Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalist
Alison Thumel's debut collection Architect has been named a finalist for the prestigious Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The Kate Tufts Discovery Award...
Now Available: True Mistakes by Lena Moses-Schmitt
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that True Mistakes by Lena Moses-Schmitt is now available. In her debut collection True...
Greg Rappleye’s Barley Child is now available!
Barley Child by Greg Rappleye, winner of the 2025 Miller William Poetry Prize, is now available. Barley Child, Greg Rappleye’s fifth collection,...
Red Ocher Reviewed in Ecotheo Collective
Nancy Miller Gomez has reviewed Jessica Poli's collection Red Ocher at Ecotheo Collective. Throughout the book, Poli brings memories so vividly to...
Available for Pre-Order: To Let the Sun by John Allen Taylor
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that To Let the Sun by John Allen Taylor, finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry...
Available for Pre-Order: True Mistakes by Lena Moses-Schmitt
True Mistakes, a finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available for pre-order. In her debut collection True Mistakes, the poet...
Available for Pre-Order: Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax
Parallax by Julia Kolchinsky, a finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is available for pre-order. Parallax offers a lyrical narrative...
Adele Elise Williams Interviewed at the Michigan Quarterly Review
Kate Sweeney has interviewed Adele Elise Williams in the Michigan Quarterly Review. The poet, editor, and educator Adele Elise Williams brings a...