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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
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Playhouse to Powerhouse
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Playhouse to Powerhouse: Locating Black Power Women and their Movement in the Black Theater by Kerry Goldmann. Prior to the 1960s, most Black theater was barred from mainstream...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford by James McWilliams. When 29-year-old Frank Stanford put three bullets in his chest on June 3, 1978, he ended a life that, since the age of 9,...
Available for Pre-Order: Straw in the Sun by Charlie May Simon
“Last spring I went to Rocky Crossing again. New green grass was sprouting on the high ridge of the road that led there, and now and then there grew a persimmon shoot, or a small hickory, where a nut had fallen and opened deep in the untrampled earth. But the ruts...
The 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Has Been Awarded to Greg Rappleye
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been awarded to Greg Rappleye by series editor Patricia Smith. The poet will receive a $5,000 cash prize, and his manuscript Barley Child will be published in...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes, edited by Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto. Conceived during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and in response to the rise in anti-Asian...
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Eat Like the Hogs is Now Available!
Eat Like the Hogs: A Collection of Favorite Recipes from Razorback Greats, edited by Karen Van Horn and Becky Bull is now available! The book...
Playhouse to Powerhouse: Locating Black Power Women and their Movement in the Black Theatre is Now Available
Playhouse to Powerhouse: Locating Black Power Women and their Movement in the Black Theatre by Kerry Goldmann is now available. The rise of Black...
Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto at Beaverdale Books
Conceived during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and the accompanying rise in anti-Asian bigotry, Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes...
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,...
Awards
Reviews
Men of No Reputation Reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
“Harper’s dogged research in archives, court records, and newspapers across the central and southern heartland … “
Native Foods Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
“Wise provides an enticing taste of the emerging field of Indigenous food history.”
To Be Named Something Else Reviewed in the Colorado Review
“Winning first place of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize hardly seems enough. This book changes the game.”
Coriolis Reviewed in Full Stop
“…what’s striking in this book is the precision with which disorder is made legible.”
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta Reviewed in Journal of American History
“provides novel insights into the history of Black working-class activism and racial capitalism in the early twentieth century and the postwar period in the Mississippi Delta.”
Sarah Neidhardt talks Twenty Acres on WritersCast
“A wonderful, rewarding family memoir that will resonate both for elder veterans of the sixties and seventies ‘back to the land’ counter culture.”
“7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June” at LitHub
David Woo Recommends Saba Keramati, Justin Rovillos Monson, Robert Pinsky, and Others.
Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report Featured in the New York Review of Books
“Cochran brings to light both the sidelong historical ruminations and the sorrowful depths of feeling that admirers have always sensed moving beneath the picaresque plots and the insouciant breezes of Portis’s prose.”
The Trouble with Light Reviewed in Southern Review of Books
“It’s hard to describe the many strengths of this collection, which read like a poet at the top of his game instead of a debut collection.”
