Jun 16, 2020 | Arkansas and the Region, Forthcoming Books, Poetry and Literature
Portrait of Charles J. Finger by Robert Hobart Davis, c. 1922 (Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library). The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger,...
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 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...
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,...
