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172 Books: A Look at Moroccan Literature Available in English from ArabLit Quarterly
ArabLit Editor Nadia Ghanem surveys the twentieth- and twenty-first century Moroccan literature available in English at ArabLit Quarterly, including The Blueness of the Evening: Selected Poems of Hassan Najmi, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin. The full list...
Free print book when you buy the ebook!
Select ebooks are now available for direct purchase from www.uapress.com, at 25% off list price. For a limited time we are also offering a free print version of the book when you buy the ebook (and we’ll ship it to you for free!). Titles in this promotion include new...
April is National Poetry Month!
Follow us on social media all month long for poems and art from our poetry books, many of which are immediately available as ebooks!
Working @ Home
The University of Arkansas Press continues to operate as staff work from home. Please review our staff listing and feel free to get in touch via email with any questions. PRESSING ONA dispatch and some recommended reading from UA Press – Editor-in-Chief David...
University of Arkansas Press shipping update
Due to the impact of COVID-19, the governor of Illinois has issued a stay-at-home order for the entire state, beginning Saturday, March 21, 2020. The Chicago Distribution Center, which distributes books for the University of Arkansas Press, has therefore closed its...
Two reviews for Defending the American Way of Life
“The machinations of the role of sport throughout America’s Cold War battles is both familiar and unexplored territory, something that this fine edited collection makes clear. With this set of probing essays, the editors Toby C. Rider and Kevin B. Witherspoon...
The Press Remains Open
Life in our community, much as it is around the world, feels like a dramatically altered state, and we understand how unsettling the uncertainty can be. As in-person classes and gatherings on our campus come to a halt and plans to travel and coordinate events...
Jose Padua interviewed at Rain Taxi
“A Short History of Monsters explodes like a cluster bomb of hilarious, acerbic, menacing, satirical, clear-eyed, and self-effacing poetry that uncomfortably lays bare Washington, DC poet Jose Padua’s experiences growing up as a Filipino in a white world and an...
AWP 2020 San Antonio – Book Signings
JUDY HALEBSKY Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1:00-2:00 JAYSON IWEN Roze & 8/ud FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2:30-3:30 ANGIE MAZAKIS I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1:00-2:00 See you there!
Patricia Smith Named Editor of Miller Williams Poetry Series
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Acclaimed poet Patricia Smith has been named series editor for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and will select the winner and finalists of the annual $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Smith is the author of seven books of poetry and the...