University of Arkansas Press

01/30/2025

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01/29/2025

Now available! BARLEY CHILD by Greg Rappleye, winner of the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Patricia Smith.

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01/23/2025

"Broadcasting the Ozarks doesn’t just fill a critical gap in country music history; it tells an American success story that could be mythic if it was not so real.”
—Mark Guarino, Missouri Historical Review

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01/22/2025

Off to print! TO LET THE SUN by John Allen Taylor, finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize.

Pre-order: https://www.uapress.com/product/to-let-the-sun/

01/21/2025

“Poli’s first full-length collection is a lyrical, elegiac contemplation of loss, yearning, and unrequited love, a slow burn of a book that will lodge itself inside you as lived memory.”
—Nancy Miller Gomez, Ecotheo Collective, January 2025

A Review of Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher In the series preface to Jessica Poli’s “Red Ocher,” Patricia Smith writes, “Good poetry should not leave you the same as when you came to it.”  By that definition, Red Ocher succeeds brilliantly. Poli’s first full-length collection is a lyrica...

01/16/2025

Off to print! TRUE MISTAKES by Lena Moses-Schmitt, finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize.

Pre-order: https://www.uapress.com/product/true-mistakes/

01/15/2025

Off to print! PARALLAX by Julia Kolchinsky, finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize.

Pre-order: https://www.uapress.com/product/parallax/

01/09/2025

Mob Rule in the Ozarks with Ken Barnes at Central Arkansas Library System's Legacies and Lunch.

CONTENT WARNING: A depiction of a lynching is shown in this presentation. Please take care in viewing this content.On January 15, 1923, an angry crowd assemb...

01/07/2025

https://www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-at-large/2025-01-06/president-carter-shares-a-dreamlike-vision-of-nepal

President Jimmy Carter’s funeral will be this week, and NPR will provide live coverage on Thursday. In 1995, President Carter was on Ozarks at Large, reading an excerpt from his book “An Outdoor Journal,” published by the University of Arkansas Press— one of six books in the Press’ “Cart...

01/03/2025

12/20/2024

The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Games Changer: The International Olympic Committee, Tokyo 2020, and COVID-19 by Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney.

The International Olympic Committee, Tokyo 2020, and COVID-19  

12/18/2024

The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Playhouse to Powerhouse: Locating Black Power Women and their Movement in the Black Theater by Kerry Goldmann.

Examines the cultural nationalist work of Black theaters founded by Black women in California, New York, and Texas.

12/18/2024

TRUE MISTAKES by Lena Moses-Schmitt, a finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is available for pre-order!

https://www.uapress.com/product/true-mistakes/

12/16/2024

Julie Kolchinsky's PARALLAX is available for pre-order. https://www.uapress.com/product/parallax/

Finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize.

12/05/2024

12/03/2024

We had a great time at the University of Arkansas Union yesterday selling books and talking about our mission!

12/02/2024

See you at the Union today, University of Arkansas! Great books at great prices from 9-2.

https://news.uark.edu/articles/72961/u-of-a-press-to-host-holiday-book-sale