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Miller Williams Poetry Series
The University of Arkansas Press annually selects books for the Miller Williams Poetry Series, awarding the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize each summer. For nearly 25 years, this series has been the cornerstone of the press’s commitment to outstanding new poetry, honoring its cofounder and longtime director, Miller Williams.
Forthcoming
Announcing Six New Titles for Fall 2026
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of six new titles for their Fall 2026 season. Letters of a Poet Dying: The Selected Correspondence of Frank Stanford, edited and with an introduction by A. P. Walton, is a watershed...
Three Arkansas Books Available in Paperback for the First Time
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that three books about Arkansas are being released in paperback for the first time. All three books are available for pre-order, and will be published this spring. Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette: An Oral...
Available for Pre-Order: Rogue Astronaut
Rogue Astronaut, a finalist for the 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available for pre-order. At the core of Rogue Astronaut, Mitchell Jacobs’s debut poetry collection, is a mystery: Was the poet’s father abducted by aliens as a teenager? From this uncanny...
Available for Pre-Order: The Weather Inside
The Weather Inside, a finalist for the 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available for pre-order. In The Weather Inside, Stevie Edwards measures the emotional atmosphere of a mind navigating bipolar disorder, complex PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and...
Available for Pre-Order: Domestica
Domestica, winner of the 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available for pre-order. “Samuel Piccone’s debut collection, Domestica," writes poet Leila Chatti, "is a field study of the quiet, (extra)ordinary labors that hold a family together. With a voice at...
News
Pulitzer Finalist: The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford by James McWilliams
The Pulitzer Prizes announced their winners and finalists on Monday, May 4, 2026. James McWilliams's The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford was one...
The Metal of a Thousand Uses Now Available
The Metal of a Thousand Uses: Mercury Mining in Arkansas, 1930–1946 by Terry S. Reynolds is now available! In 1930, a remote corner of southwest...
In the Shade of the Pine Now Available
In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825-1876 by Christiana Payne is now available! In recent years, there has been a...
Barley Child Wins the Society of Midland Authors Book Award
Barley Child, Greg Rappleye's Miller Williams Poetry Prize-winning collection, has been named the receipient of the 2026 Society of Midland Authors...
Awards
Reviews
Barley Child Reviewed in the Colorado Review and Presence
Barley Child, by Greg Rappleye, has been reviewed in the Colorado Review and in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. “Roots, dirt, smudges, crops: Rappleye is very interested in all these things, it turns out. In this, his fifth collection, Rappleye sings the songs...
Two Reviews of Águila
Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, by María Cristina Moroles and Lauri Umansky, has been reviewed in the journals Nova Religio and Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “The book offers an excellent tour through the...
Julia Kolchinsky’s Poem on The Slowdown
“Today’s poem made my breath catch in my throat, because it captures so well these beautiful, and sometimes heartbreaking, conversations that parents have with their children.”
Bulletin of Latin American Research Reviews Food Studies in Latin American Literature
“This book is fascinating to read. Given the limited scholarship connecting food and literature in the region, it is an excellent contribution to the field.”
Kirkus Reviews Names The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford One of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
Kirkus Reviews has named The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams, one of the best nonfiction books of 2025. In a starred review, Kirkus hailed McWilliams’s biography of the late Arkansas poet as “the full-throated biography fans have been yearning...
Benjamin R. Cohen Reviews The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford at Public Books
"I knew nearly nothing about the life of Frank Stanford before this new, barnstorming, capacious biography. I knew only the smallest amount about his poetry. I’d heard he died young of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Maybe I saw that on the cover of a tattered...
Barley Child Reviewed in the Colorado Review
“[A] richly imagined and lyrically presented record of the Irish American experience from the pen of someone who knows, who can reliably summon up both its reality and its spirit.”
The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford Receives a Starred Publishers Weekly Review
“It’s a page-turner.”
Mob Rule in the Ozarks Reviewed in the Fort Smith Historical Society Journal
“This well written and meticulously researched volume by Kenneth Barnes is … a significant addition to historical scholarship of the nation”
