Upcoming Pat
Carr will be reading George
E. Lankford will be reading Donald
Platt will be reading Robert
Gibb will be reading Promotional
tour for Let Me Tell You Where I've Been by Persis Karim
Past Events Curtis
Austin will be reading Carole
Simmons Oles will be reading Elizabeth
Hadaway will be reading
Carole
Simmons Oles readings Peter
Benson on Through the Ropes Elizabeth
Hadaway will be reading for the Harford
Poetry and Literary Society William Bowen signed copies of The Boy From Altheimer at Wordsworth's in Little Rock on June 10th, 2006. Several
University of Arkansas Press authors appeared at the Southern Kentucky
Bookfest The
Bookmakers Daughter by Shirley Abbot selected for "If All Arkansas
Read the Same Book" |
"Carr's
eight short stories and novella are satisfyingly rich in historical detail,
yet unencumbered by unnecessary minutiae of the period.... taken as a
whole, the stories give the reader an engaging new perspective on what
would seem to be familiar territory." "Move
over John Edgar Wideman. Poet Robert Gibb's 'The Homestead Trilogy,' now
completed, takes its place alongside 'The Homewood Trilogy' in the canon
of Pittsburgh literature." "...
gives us a splendid picture of life on the Arkansas frontier, the customs,
the language, the attitudes, the rural folk beliefs.... belongs in the
library of every reader interested in the past of Arkansas." "This
engaging yarn captures the unrelieved seaminess of it all . . . The book
is served by a solid bibliography, rare photographs, and a mine of journalistic
sources." "As
a long out-of-print volume, Monks? story more than lives up to the goal
of the 'Civil War in the West' series. Its introduction represents the
best of modern scholarship, and the memoir is a valuable item that needs
to be made available once again for the modern audience." "An
inspiring, thought-provoking collection of essays, letters, interviews,
poems and fragments on the poetic art by its practitioners.... there is
so much here that is deeply winning and thought-provoking, one must finally
celebrate such good sense and intriguing observations between the covers
of one book. I can't imagine the teacher or poet who wouldn't want a copy
of this anthology close at hand." "This
deep, emotional anthology of poetry, essays and memoirs edited by Karim
represents the growth of women's writing that occurred after the Iranian
revolution." "Johnson
has not missed with this fine book." "[A]
powerful glimpse at the harrowing difficulties of taking a stand that
is unpopular to one's neighbors." "Clear,
engaging, authoritative, and eminently accessible...an oustanding overview
of a state and its people emeshed in civil conflict and social upheaveal." "A
Whole Country in Commotion presents vital scholarship that focuses on
the Southwest as it explores the geopolitical and human consequences of
an event that transformed both the early republic and its world." "Stone
Songs on the Trail of Tears is an inspiring remembrance of the strength
and courage of the Cherokee people." |
| Here
and Hereafter wins
the annual Poetry Award from the Ohioana Library Association Battling
Siki on Jim Agnew's Book Picks List
Reading with Oprah named finalist for Independent Publisher Book Award Dinarzad's
Children wins ForeWord Magazine Silver Award Standing
around the Heart named finalist for 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize Arkansas
poet Jo McDougall featured on "The Writer's Almanac" Christopher
Bursk is the winner of the Binghamton University Milt Kesller Poetry Book
Award. Patrick
Phillips is the winner of the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Promises
Kept named winner of the 2006 Booker-Worthen Prize from the Central Arkansas
Library System. |
