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.”
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Waking Stone
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Tales of Trilussa
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My Father Says Grace
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World over Water
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Figured Dark
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Outlaw Style
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Now You’re the Enemy
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Rift
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A Necklace of Bees
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The Fire Landscape
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A Sunday in God-Years
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Start with the Trouble
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Weapons Grade
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Another Creature
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Harm’s Way
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The Dirt Riddles
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Paradise
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Lovely Asunder
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Rousing the Machinery
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Talk Poetry
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The Empty Loom
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In Broken Latin
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Chord Box
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Praise Nothing
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The Law of Falling Bodies
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Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths
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Breaking the Jaws of Silence
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Sin
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The Light the Dead See
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The Coal Life
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The Apple That Astonished Paris
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Day of the Border Guards
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Ghost Gear
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To the Bramble and the Briar
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Afternoon Masala
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The Red Kimono
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Camp Nine
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As They Sail
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August Evening with Trumpet
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Becoming Bone
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Big Blue Train
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Black Drum
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Born Palestinian, Born Black
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The Bottomland
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The Burning World
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Changeable Thunder
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Chattahoochee
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The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
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Collected Poems 1945-1990
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The Comeback’s Exoskeleton
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