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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.
News
James McWilliams & A. P. Walton at the Fayetteville Public Library
James McWilliams and A. P. Walton were in conversation at the Fayetteville Public Library on September 27, 2026. The event was moderated by Z. D....
Letters of a Poet Dying Reviewed in the Arkansas Times
This past year, however, has been good for Stanford fans, especially those advocating for a wider awareness of the poet’s work. James McWilliams’...
University of Arkansas Press Acquires Butler Center Books
Two Arkansas institutions unite to strengthen the publication and preservation of the state’s history and culture The University of Arkansas Press...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Lex Rex Effect by Asa Hutchinson
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of The Lex Rex Effect: Stories of a Conservative Pursuing...
Awards
Reviews
Letters of a Poet Dying Reviewed in the Arkansas Times
This past year, however, has been good for Stanford fans, especially those advocating for a wider awareness of the poet’s work. James McWilliams’ 2025 biography, The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In the spring of 2026,...
Arkansas Historical Quarterly Reviews From Blue to Red
“Arkansas long resisted the political path followed by the other former Confederate states. For much of the twentieth century, many Arkansas voters continued to identify as Democrats even as their voting behavior gradually shifted. Ticket splitting remained common,...
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.”
