Day of the Border Guards featured on The Hooch

The Hooch, the blog of The Chattahoochee Review, featured Katherine E. Young’s ” stellar new book” Day of the Border Guards.   Katherine Young has an upcoming reading at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore on July 25. For more information, and...

Fall 2014 New Books Announced

Designed to appeal to students of history and foodies alike, American Appetites, the first book in the University of Arkansas Press’s new Food and Foodways series, brings together compelling firsthand testimony describing the nation’s collective eating habits...

When the Wolf Came Wins 2014 Oklahoma Book Award

Non-Fiction When the Wolf Came: The Civil War and the Indian Territory—Mary Jane Warde—University of Arkansas Press Warde explores how the Civil War in the Indian Territory involved almost every resident; resulted in the death of both civilians and soldiers; left the...

Billy Collins Named Editor of the Miller Williams Poetry Series

  Billy Collins has been named the editor of the Miller Williams Poetry Series, published by The University of Arkansas Press. As editor, Collins will be ultimately responsible for the books published through the series and for choosing the winner of the annual...

This poetry responds by bearing witness to oppression.

  Breaking the Jaws of Silence was reviewed in the May-August 2014 issue of World Literature Today. Wolpé has established her own work as a fearless poet in three collections, including Rooftops of Tehran. Both her aversion to oppression and her ability to...

"A thoughtful, well-researched, and engaging narrative…"

Calvin White’s recent book, Rise to Respectability, has garnered yet more praise—this time from The Journal of Southern  History. The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious...