George Pool Ballard published poems in newspapers in Fayetteville (Washington County) as well as a poetry coll...

Arkansas poet Greg Alan Brownderville has published three award-winning books of poetry and folklore and creat...

Sidney Johnson Burris is a prolific writer of essays, criticism, and poetry. His poetry is as influenced by hi...

Originally from Texas, Irene Carlisle lived much of her life in Fayetteville (Washington County), where she be...

Frank Barbour Coffin was an African American pharmacist who owned and operated one of the earliest drugstores ...

Kai Coggin is a queer, Filipina American poet, author, educator, activist, and Certified Arkansas Master Natur...

Little Rock (Pulaski County) author Hope Coulter is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, children’s book au...

Charles T. Davis was the first poet laureate of Arkansas. C. T. Davis was born on March 26, 1888, at Dardanell...

Beverley Githens Dresbach was a poet and journalist who lived in Eureka Springs (Carroll County) with her husb...

Glenn Ward Dresbach was an internationally known poet with ten books to his credit when he moved to Eureka Spr...

Henry Dumas was a critically acclaimed author of poetry and fiction who captured, in some of his finest work, ...

John Gould Fletcher, poet and essayist, is widely acknowledged as one of the state’s most notable literary f...

Although Edsel Ford did not arrive in the Arkansas Ozarks until the age of eleven, he lived most of his adult...

Published in 1973, Halfway from Hoxie: New and Selected Poems was Miller Williams’s fifth collection of poet...

Fay Hempstead was an attorney, a poet, and a Mason who spent much of his life in the service of the Grand Lodg...

Verna Lee Linxwiler Hinegardner was appointed the poet laureate of Arkansas in 1991 by Governor Bill Clinton a...

Paul Lake is a poet, novelist, and professor residing in Russellville (Pope County). He received the Porter Pr...

Looking for Shiloh (1968) was the last collection of poetry published by Edsel Ford before his death at the ag...

Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni was poet laureate of Arkansas from 1953 to 1970. A prolific poet herself, she worked to ...

Jo Garot McDougall is a poet of the Arkansas Delta. Her work is noted for its sparseness and evocation of smal...

Patricia Washington McGraw, a scholar, professor, and author, has made a significant impact throughout the cou...

Lucy Byrd Mock, a native of Prairie Grove (Washington County), set numerous records as a golfer, established t...

One With Others is C. D. Wright’s 2010 book of investigative, documentary poetry chronicling the life of her...

Lily Peter, state poet laureate, was a distinguished author, successful farmer, teacher, musician, conservatio...

Albert Pike was a lawyer who played a major role in the development of the early courts of Arkansas and played...

The position of Poet Laureate of Arkansas was established on October 10, 1923, by concurrent resolutions of bo...

John Rollin Ridge was a Cherokee/Puritan novelist, poet, essayist, and newspaper editor who is recognized as t...