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.
Jeremy Michael Clark's debut collection, The Trouble with Light, has been reviewed by Sara Lynn Eastler in the 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...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Haunted Man’s Report: Reading Charles Portis by Robert Cochran is now available! Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis...
Sarah Ghazal Ali, author of Theophanies, recommends poems that contemplate home, selfhood, legacy, and belonging at Electric Lit in "7 Poetry Collections that Transform the Personal Into Portals." Self-Mythology by Saba Keramati Selected by Patricia Smith as a...
Saba Keramati, author of Self-Mythology appeared on the Tightwires podcast hosted by Hiba Tahir. In the search for a true home, what does it mean to be confronted instead by an insurmountable sense of otherness? This question dwells at the center of Saba Keramati’s...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the 2024 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize has been awarded to Rawand Mustafa for her manuscript Umbilical Discord. The poet will receive a $1,000 cash prize, and her manuscript will be published as the eighth title in the...
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce that Wager, by Adele Elise Williams, is now available. Wager, Adele Elise Williams’s raucous debut and a finalist for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, celebrates the fearlessness and determination that can...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Self-Mythology by Saba Keramati, a finalist for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available. In the search for a true home, what does it mean to be confronted instead by an insurmountable sense...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that The Trouble with Light by Jeremy Michael Clark, finalist for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available. In The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Architect, winner of the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available. “When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life,” writes Alison Thumel in Architect, which interweaves...
The New York Public Library has named Shaina Phenix's collection To Be Named Something Else to its list of the best books of 2023. Winner, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, To Be Named Something Else is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage—both...
