Jun 19, 2020 | Arkansas and the Region, News, Poetry and Literature
Amistad Press launched the movement and hashtags #BlackPublishingPower and #BlackOutBestSellerList to support black authors and get their names on bestseller lists throughout the country. Tracy Sherrod, editorial director of Amistad, brought this idea to life. She...
Jun 16, 2020 | Award, News
The Georgia Writers Association (GWA) announced via Facebook Live the winners and finalists of the 56th annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards. Poet Leon Stokesbury was awarded posthumously awarded the lifetime achievement award. Leon Stokesbury was born in Oklahoma...
Jun 15, 2020 | Miller Williams Poetry Series, News, Poetry and Literature
Michael McGriff Craig Blais Madeleine Wattenberg Author, editor and translator Michael McGriff has won the 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize for his collection Eternal Sentences. Two finalists were also named: Craig Blais for his collection Moon News and Madeleine...
Jun 11, 2020 | Arkansas and the Region, music, News
Book Authority has ranked The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash by John M. Alexander as number seven on its list of the “82 Best Country Music Books of All Time.” “In discovering why Cash wrote a given song or chose to record it,...
Jun 10, 2020 | News, Poetry and Literature
Jayson Iwen appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Simply Superior to discuss his poetry collection Roze & Blud, which won the 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Arkansas Press in March 2020. His work was selected by...
Jun 1, 2020 | African American Studies, Arkansas and the Region, News, Review
“Fugitivism,” Shaun Wallace writes in the May 2020 issue of The Journal of Southern History, “enriches scholarly knowledge and understanding of enslaved fugitives and fugitivity in the antebellum South, introducing individual stories of fugitivity...
