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.
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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.
Madeleine Wattenberg’s debut collection I/O, finalist for the 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available. I/O alternates between epistolary poems to the mythical figure Io and lyrical interrogations of science, myth, and the historical record. Wattenberg...
A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous has been named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book has previously won the 2020 The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award from the Arab American Book Awards and the 2020 Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of...
Poets Gina Franco and Sara Lupita Olivares will give a virtual reading on Saturday, March 20, as part of the Poets in Print Reading Series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. For more information, and to sign up for this free virtual event, check out the event page on...
The University of Arkansas Libraries and University of Arkansas Press presented a discussion on Thursday, March 4, on Zoom featuring author Elizabeth Findley Shores' about her recent book, Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger. It was...
Michael McGriff’s Eternal Sentences, winner of the 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, bears witness to the world of gravel roads, working-class families, and geographic isolation in poems that illuminate both common occurrence and the territories of the surreal. Here,...
Join the University of Arkansas Libraries and Press for a discussion of author Elizabeth Shores' recent book, Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger, and a virtual tour of related Special Collections holdings from 4-5 p.m. Thursday,...
Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds is a marvel in using scientific theory and classification to explore womanhood, exile, minority experience, the effects of war, and post-colonialism. The poet uses different kinds and classifications of birds as a binding metaphor...
For nearly a century, British expatriate Charles Joseph Finger (1867–1941) was best known as an award-winning author of children’s literature. In Shared Secrets, Elizabeth Findley Shores relates Finger’s untold story, exploring the secrets that connected the author to...
A virtual conversation, inspired by the work of and legacy of one of Iran's outstanding cultural figures of the 20th century, Forugh Farrokhzad, featuring Sholeh Wolpé, Jasmin Darznik and Shabnam Piryaei, with emcee Persis Karim, will take place Thursday, December 3,...
The University of Arkansas Press has published Double Toil and Trouble, the first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by beloved Arkansas writer Donald Harington (1935–2009). Featuring a long-lost suspense novel and four previously unpublished or uncollected...
