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.
Saba Keramati writes about the hopes, dreams, characteristics, and experiences that form the self but that also stir up more mysteries in her new poetry collection, Self-Mythology. Keramati, born in America, writes from the perspective of being an only child of...
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,...
Julia Kolchinsky, whose collection Parallax was a finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is today's featured poet at The Missouri Review with her poem "How many poems can I write about my son’s insatiable longing?" "In some sense," writes Kolchinsky,...
Shaina Phenix's To Be Named Something Else, winner of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, has been reviewed by Autumn Newman in the Colorado Review. “Harlem is in Phenix’s poems the way Bronzeville is in Brooks’ poems. Lineage is found in all these poems through...
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...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the publication of Umbilical Discord by Rawand Mustafa, winner of the 2024 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. At its core, Rawand Mustafa’s Umbilical Discord is an impossible attempt. Ambitious in scope, it strives to...
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar's Coriolis, winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, has been reviewed in Full Stop by Imogen Osborne. “The Coriolis Effect, which A.D. Lauren-Abunassar defines in the epigraph to her debut collection Coriolis, is when ‘an inertial force acts...
Robert Cochran, author of the new book Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis was interviewed by Daniel Moran at the New Books Network. Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis...
David Woo Recommends Saba Keramati, Justin Rovillos Monson, Robert Pinsky, and Others at LitHub in his new article "Holding Up Mirrors to the Self: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June." "With a kind of double-mirror infinitude," Woo writes, "the debut poet Saba...
Jonathan Lethem's new essay in the New York Review of Books, "Grand Poobah of the Antigrandiose" explores the work of novelist Charles Portis, and highlights the work of Robert Cochran's new book Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis. "Now comes the University...
