May 1, 2020 | Arkansas and the Region, News, Poetry and Literature
In the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates, Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley in a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline...
Apr 30, 2020 | News, Poetry and Literature
ArabLit Editor Nadia Ghanem surveys the twentieth- and twenty-first century Moroccan literature available in English at ArabLit Quarterly, including The Blueness of the Evening: Selected Poems of Hassan Najmi, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin. The full list...
Feb 14, 2020 | African American Studies, News, Poetry and Literature
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Acclaimed poet Patricia Smith has been named series editor for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and will select the winner and finalists of the annual $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Smith is the author of seven books of poetry and the...