Poetry &
Literature
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Subject Area: Poetry & Literature
A historic home for vibrant voices in poetry and prose. Since the press’s earliest days at our home in the Ozarks, we’ve served as an outpost of literary excellence both in the area and in the international community of letters. Cofounded by acclaimed poet Miller Williams, the University of Arkansas Press is home to some of the language’s most celebrated writers, including Billy Collins, Frank Stanford, Ellen Gilchrist, and John Williams. We continue our search for poetry, memoirs, novels, essays, and collections that vivify, problematize, and delight, all the while pursuing greater representation and inclusion in our authorship and a heightened connection to traditionally underserved and underappreciated readerships.
News
The 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been Awarded to Samuel Piccone
Collections from finalists Raphael Jenkins, Mitchell Jacobs, and Stevie Edwards will also be published.
The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford Receives a Starred Publishers Weekly Review
“It’s a page-turner.”
Now Available! The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford
“The full-throated biography fans have been yearning for.” —Kirkus Starred Review, April 2025
Now Available! Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora
Brings together historically isolated writers in community—and invites readers to join them around the table to share in their memories, secrets, tears, and joys.
Saba Keramati wins 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize
For her collection Self-Mythology.
Publishers Weekly Reviews Parallax
“Readers will find this a moving and impactful collection.”
Readings
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Playhouse to Powerhouse
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Sleeping in the Courtyard
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The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford
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To Let the Sun
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True Mistakes
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Parallax
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Barley Child
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Umbilical Discord
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Wager
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Self-Mythology
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The Trouble with Light
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Architect
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Haunted Man’s Report
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The Measure of Distance
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Coriolis
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The Daughter of Man
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To Be Named Something Else
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Red Ocher
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The Woods Colt
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How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave
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Rational Anthem
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Gut
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All Earthly Bodies
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Abacus of Loss
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Like We Still Speak
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Eternal Sentences
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Moon News
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I/O
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Shared Secrets
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The Chemistry of Fire
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Strip
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Migratory Sound
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Double Toil and Trouble
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I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First
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Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)
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Roze & Blud
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Beyond Memory
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John Ciardi
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The Accidental
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A Theory of Birds
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Certain Solitudes
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Ciardi Himself
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The Literature of the Ozarks
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Unmanly Grief
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A Short History of Monsters
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At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home
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Teeth Never Sleep
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Our Earliest Tattoos
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The Blueness of the Evening
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Ya Te Veo
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