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Since 2002 Enid Shomer has edited the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series, working closely with the poets in the editorial process. Books are selected anonymously in an open competition. 
The winner of the The Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize receives $5000. 
Up to three finalists are also published each year.
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In Broken Latin
Annette Spaulding Convy

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Life in the convent, turned on its head.

Finalist: 2012 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

The Empty Loom
Robert Gibb

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Love poems and elegies.

Finalist: 2012 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

Rousing the Machinery
Catherine MacDonald

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Winner of the 2012 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

“Word-play and world-play”: the untidy geographies of an ordinary life.


The Coal Life
Adam Vines

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“Mined from linguistic, literary, and historical underworlds.”

Finalist: 2012 Miller Williams Poetry Prize


Lovely Asunder
Danielle Cadena Deulen

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Winner of the 2011 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

This debut collection enchants and haunts like an expensive perfume.


Paradise
Stephen Gibson

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A journey in search of place.

Finalist: Miller Williams Poetry Prize


The Dirt Riddles
Michael Walsh

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Winner of the $5,000 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize
Winnner of the 2011 Thom Gunn Award
Poems about the world of a closeted young man and his surreal garden.


Harm’s Way
Eric Leigh

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Poems about the struggle to find and be found, to love and be loved.

Finalist for the 2011 Thom Gunn Award 

Another Creature
Pamela Gemin

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These expansive poems follow a woman through both her mistaken and wise ways.


Weapons Grade
Terese Svoboda

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Poems that walk out to the edge where language is made.

Start with the Trouble
Daniel Donaghy

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Beauty rises from the darkness 
in this second collection.
Winner of the 2010 
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence
Finalist for the Milt Kessler Poetry Award

A Sunday in God-Years
Michelle Boisseau

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A Poet reckons with her slave-owning ancestry.


The Fire Landscape
Gary Fincke

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Coming of age in post-fifties America.

Winner of the 2009 
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence

A Necklace of Bees
Dannye Romine Powell

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Probing the nature of loss—actual and feared.

Winner of the 2009 
Brockman-Campbell Book Award


Rift
Barbara Helfgott Hyett

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The ring, Apollo & Daphne, 
the flesh, dura mater.


Now You’re the Enemy
James Allen Hall

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A family in the aftermath of violence.

2009 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Award

Finalist for the
2008 Independent Booksellers’ Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award

Co-winner in the gay poetry category from
Lambda Book Awards

Outlaw Style
R.T. Smith

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Exploring the culture and landscape of the American South.

Winner: 2008 Library of 
Virginia Poetry Award

Figured Dark
Greg Rappleye

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Affidavits of a heart at work.


World Over Water
Robert Gibb

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Final volume in a powerful poetic trilogy.

My Father Says Grace
Donald Platt

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Lyrical poems of optimism and grace.

Waking Stone
Carole Simmons Oles

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An intimate dialogue between poet 
and sculptor.


Fire Baton
Elizabeth Hadaway

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A cross between Yeats and a seasoned moonshiner.

2007 Library of Virginia Award for Poetry

Finalist for the 2007 Independent Booksellers’ Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award

Walking Through the Horizon
Margaret Holley 

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The adventure of moving, 
the meaning of home.

The First Inhabitants of Arcadia
Christopher Bursk

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Delves into the mysteries 
inherent in the alphabet.

Winner: 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize



Here and Hereafter
Elton Glaser

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A feast of language that lets us taste how it feels to live on this earth.


Winner: 2006 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry

Becoming Bone
Annie Boutelle

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Delves into the life of a nineteenth-century woman poet.

Standing Around the Heart
Gary Fincke

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Poems with a conversational tone and lyrical intensity.

Finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize


King Vulture
K.E. Duffin

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A first book from this accomplished 
formalist poet.

August Evening with Trumpet
Harry Humes

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A new collection from this accomplished poet in the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series.

Chattahooche
Patrick Phillips

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A powerful debut collection in the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series.

Winner: 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award



The Burning World
Robert Gibb

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The Burning World is part of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series.

Candlefish
Elizabeth Biller Chapman

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Candlefish is part of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series.

Trembling Air
Michelle Boisseau

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"…things poised on the brink of revelation"

Finalist for 2004 PEN USA Award for Poetry


The Ecstasy of Regret
Dannye Romine Powell

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Winner of the 2003 Oscar Arnold Young Award

Winner of the
2003 Brockman Campbell Award

Finalist for the
2003 Foreword Magazine Best of the Small Press Book Awards 

Finalist in the poetry category for the 2003 Southeastern Booksellers Association Prize


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