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 Red Ocher, finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, by Jessica Poli. In Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher, the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been awarded to Shaina Phenix by series editor Patricia Smith. The poet will receive a $5,000 cash prize, and her manuscript To Be Named Something Else will...
Elmaz Abinader has reviewed Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse by Sholeh Wolpé’ in PRISM International. Loss rumbles through one’s life—reverberates in every stage of our growth. We lose innocence, lose country, lose time, lose parts of ourselves; lose love, lose...
Mary Zaborskis has reviewed Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger by Elizabeth Findley Shores in the May 2022 issue of the Journal of Southern History. Elizabeth Findley Shores’s recent publication conveys 1925 Newbery Medalist Charles...
Linda Scheller has reviewed Sholeh Wolpé's Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse in The Colorado Review. "When circumstances change, we change," Scheller writes. "As with any organism, a human’s survival is predicated on homeostasis, the processes of self-regulating...
From novels to books of poetry to cookbooks, Alison Law writes The Bitter Southerner’s 2022 Summer Reading Roundup. Mythological meets Southern gothic in this debut poetry collection from J. Bailey Hutchinson. In the book, we are witness to a mother’s love encircling...
J. Bailey Hutchinson, winner of the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize for her debut collection Gut, will read with the Open Mouth Poetry Series on Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 7:00pm. The reading will be preceded by a round of single-poem introductory readings by Geffrey...
Rational Anthem by Casey Thayer, a finalist for the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available. Thayer's collection was selected for publication by Patricia Smith. In a voice at times electrified by caustic cynicism, at other times stripped bare by grief,...
Gut: Poems by J. Bailey Hutchinson, is now available! J. Bailey Hutchinson’s Gut, winner of the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is the dazzling debut of a born storyteller. In Hutchinson’s poems, which explore the substance of personal history, family attains the...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave by Maya Salameh, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. The confluence of the divine and digital are at the heart of Salameh's...
