The essays in United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836–1960—one each for a judge and his decisions—come together to form a chronological history of the Arkansas judicial system as it
Finalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeIn When We Were Birds, Joe Wilkins wrestles his attention away from the griefs, deprivations, and high prairies of his Montana childhood and turns toward “th
The Country Music Message: Revisited is more than a history of commercial country music, a discussion of the performers, or a compilation of song lyrics. It is an examination of the way the "message"
Winner of the 2015 Moon City Poetry PrizeIn Sad Math, Sarah Freligh takes us for a ride through an American girlhood, a retrospective landscape of parking in cars and illicit kisses in a Donut Delite.
"Stoney broke and alone in London. That's how I found myself one day some years before the Great War." So begins Fredrick French's Tommy Atkins at Home and Abroad, an enormously entertaining memoir th
Lavishly color-illustrated, the 2012 volume of Moon City Review centers on children's literature and its increasingly blurry borderlands. MCR 2012 offers a variable feast of poetry, fiction, criticism
Night of the Grizzly, Michael Burns's last book, was a finished manuscript at the time of his passing and reflects an incisive poet at the height of his powers. Burns has an ear for language as satisf
"In the poems of Jennifer Husk the world is a membrane words bounce against and poke into, skating on the scrim then delving below in quick sharp digs of fragment, image, and gut-punch. This work is '
Moon City Press presents another edition of its annual examination of the best in contemporary literature. Both established and up-and-coming writers contribute short stories, poems, essays, book revi
In 1993, poet, author, and teacher Robert Wallace wrote an essay, "Meter in English," to clarify and simplify methods of studying the line-by-line rhythms and structure of poetry. When David Baker cir
When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bil
