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.
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Wager, by Adele Elise Williams, a finalist for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Patricia Smith. Wager, Adele Elise Williams’s raucous debut, celebrates the...
The University of Arkansas Press is proud to announce the publication of Self-Mythology: Poems by Saba Keramati. A finalist for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Patricia Smith, Self-Mythology will be published in the spring of 2024. “A revelatory...
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of The Trouble with Light by Jeremy Michael Clark. In The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he delves into questions about...
LJ Sysko's collection The Daughter of Man, a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, has been reviewed in the Colorado Review. “The varied jewels of Sysko’s hoard make this book worth reading. These poems have wonderfully glib titles like ‘What’s stupid’...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Architect by Alison Thumel, winner of the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. “When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life,” writes Alison Thumel in...
Amy Penne has reviewed L. J. Sysko's collection The Daughter of Man at Compulsive Reader. Sysko’s poetics are enviable. I’m jealous of her seemingly effortless ability to float between the particular and the universal with ease. In “tablescape” from the Warrior...
The deadline for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been extended. Manuscripts must now be submitted by October 15, 2023. Every year, the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and from the books selected awards...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been awarded to Alison Thumel by series editor Patricia Smith. The poet will receive a $5,000 cash prize, and her manuscript Architect will be published in the...
Q: What was your inspiration for The Measure of Distance?Pauline: I’ve always wanted to write a novel about the immigration of a family from Egypt to the U.S. I knew that I would draw on my own family’s experience of immigrating for the novel, but I didn’t know...
The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel by Pauline Kaldas is now available. This family saga begins when Salim, the eldest of three brothers, moves to Cairo at the start of the twentieth century with dreams of opening his own bakery. His decision to leave his...
