Sep 17, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
It’s Freedom Summer, 1964, in tiny Maeby, Arkansas, and three SNCC volunteers have come to town determined to integrate the public library and all-white school. They’re joined in their efforts by eight year-old Sarah’s unconventional, hot pants–wearing mother. The...
Jul 28, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas Press, together with the Radius of Arab American Writers, announces the initiation of the Etel Adnan Poetry Series and Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. The $1000 prize will be be awarded to a first or second book of poetry, in...
Jun 23, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
Wilma Rudolph was born on this day (June 23) in 1940. Born and raised just about forty miles east of Nashville, Tennessee, in the small town of Clarksville, Rudolph was the twentieth of twenty-two children born to Blanche and Ed Rudolph. Her father worked as a...
Apr 24, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
REMEMBERING MILLER Although I’d stumbled along as a poet for almost twenty years by the time I attended a 1979 writers conference in Little Rock, my real career in poetry began that summer day on a bumpy station-wagon ride with Miller Williams and Jim...
Mar 20, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
Fayetteville, Arkansas is roughly one thousand miles from the state of Virginia. But this week, with the annual Virginia Festival of the Book in session, we’ve been thinking about the incredible poetic connection between the two places. The Virginia Festival of...
Jul 28, 2014 | News, Uncategorized
George David Clark has been named the winner of the 2015 Miller Williams Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press. Clark’s manuscript, titled Reveille, was chosen by series editor Enid Shomer from among hundreds of entrants for the annual prize, which...
