May 28, 2020 | Award, Food and Foodways, Food Studies, News
To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, edited by Rachel B. Herrmann, has won the 2020 book award for an edited volume from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. The ASFS Book Award recognizes an outstanding book about...
May 26, 2020 | journals, News
Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts issue 9.1 (Spring 2020) is now available. The newest issue of Artivate opens with observations from editors Paul Bonin-Rodriguez and Neville Vakharia, on COVID-19 and the challenges facing artists and the arts...
May 15, 2020 | Arkansas and the Region, News
“In the early days of the republic,” Bill J. Gurley writes in the foreword to A Family Practice, “health care was certainly not viewed as a right but rather as a service—a much-needed service that not all could access easily. Physicians and their...
May 7, 2020 | Award, News, Poetry and Literature
Zaina Alsous has won the 2020 Norma Farber Award for her collection A Theory of Birds. The Norma Farber Book Award honors a first book of original poetry written by a living author and is given by the Poetry Society of America. The Judge was Matthew Shenoda. “In...
May 4, 2020 | Arkansas and the Region, News, Poetry and Literature
The University Press community has compiled a list of books to help readers escape the news, and the titles have been collected at LitHub, which writes “the goal for the list is to offer readers a way to entertain and inform in a time when reading allows us a...
May 1, 2020 | News, Poetry and Literature
The zip ode is an original form invented by O, Miami and WLRN designed to transform ZIP codes into occasions for lyrical neighborhood celebration. P. Scott Cunningham, author of Ya Te Veo, a finalist for the 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is a fonder of the O,...
