Et Alia Press

09/19/2025

Erin Enderlin live at George's Majestic Lounge! Catch Erin’s foreword to From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song by Arkansongs and Illustrated by Katherine Strause.

09/18/2025

Congratulations to all the Arkansas women artists listed on the bienial juried registry of The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA)! ACNMWA is exhibiting the work of 48 Arkansas women artists and you can see their names here.

Katie Adkins Email the artist: [email protected] Artist website: https://www.katieadkinsphotography.com/ MORE INFORMATION Email Website

09/10/2025

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a collection of words which were first used in 1925

09/09/2025

Mark your calendar for this free Arkansas Music event at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, hosted by Arkansas State Archives! Registration through link in comments includes lunch.

Speakers include Jeff Glover, co-host of Ozarks Highland Radio and staff member at the Ozark Folk Center; and Thomas Jacques, interim director of the Delta Cultural Center. Topics will cover the origins of the Grand Ole Opry, archival recordings and histories of legendary folk musicians, and King Biscuit Time’s impact on the development of Delta Blues.

Et Alia author and Arkansongs host Stephen Koch will talk about the life of legendary rhythm and blues singer Louis Jordan and will perform some of Jordan’s most widely known songs. LaDawn Fuhr of Arkansas State University will discuss the life of African American gospel pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Her presentation will be followed by a performance from Little Rock’s St. Mark’s Baptist Church Choir demonstrating Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s influence on modern gospel music.

Signed copies of Stephen Koch and Katherine Strause’s illustarted book From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Musicians Who Transformed American Popular Song will be available for sale.nts

08/31/2025

Love seeing 100 Insects of Arkansas and the Midsouth: Portraits and Stories and Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives on this shelf! Thanks for supporting local books and authors Black Ribbon Books and Red Light Roastery!

We have a teensy tiny "bookstore" set up in Red Light Roastery! There is a tiiiiiiiiiny bit of almost everything.😁 Thank you Briana, for letting us spread the love of reading!📚💚

08/28/2025

Welcome to Little Rock 🖤 🐴 🖤! Bethany’s awesome store is filled with the coolest array of vintage tees, jewelry, handbags, and home wares. And very soon, copies of From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song by Arkansongs and Katherine Strause. Mark your calendars for the grand opening Friday, September 12, 5-7 pm. Yeehaw! 🤠

08/27/2025

As the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, WDSU News interviews Bruce Snow about the memoirs behind his memoir Can Everybody Swim? A Survival Story from Katrina's Superdome.

Bruce Snow remembers the moment the storm ended. It wasn't silent, but it wasn't windy either. Snow remembers water.

08/27/2025

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For this week's episode, Arkansongs remembers vocalist Mable John, who died August 25, 2022.

Born in Bastrop, Louisiana, she was raised in Ouachita County, Ark. Her mother, Lillie, played guitar. Her brother, Willie, became an R&B star in the mid-1950s.
In the 1960s, Mable recorded simmering solo sides for both Motown in Detroit and Stax in Memphis and then spent many years leading Ray Charles's Raelettes. Known for distributing food and clothing to those in need in Southern California, she earned her doctorate in divinity in the early 1990s.
This week, Arkansongs honors Dr. Mable John.

(Mable John portrait by Katherine Strause
as found in the book "From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song" 💙)

Listen terrestrially or streaming on your radio or device via any of our affiliates across Arkansas, in Louisiana, and in east Texas. Or tell your smart speaker to play one of our affiliates hashtagged below:



Much love to our underwriting partners, Et Alia Press, publisher of "From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song," featuring portraits (like this one of Dr. John) by artist Katherine Strause.

08/15/2025

Happy back to school week! 🏫 Teachers, considered having the highly entertaining storyteller and singer/songwriter Carol Dabney to your classroom.

08/08/2025

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Come in and contribute to local performance artist Bai Mros' novel-in-progress! 🥰

08/08/2025

Woman Maker of Arkansas Laura Brainard Raborn is offering this workshop in just over a week. It would be great for writers or anyone who loves words. Having done workshops with Laura in the past, I can say that it will have a long term impact on your creative life. Hope you’ll sign up and spend a fruitful Saturday with Laura and our friends at !

04/26/2025

It’s Independent Bookstore Day! Celebrate by visiting any or all of these five LR/NLR bookstores, enjoy bookish friends, and find out how you can win one of five gift baskets.

Book your day with .ar, , , , and and help share the love with these local bookstores that work hard every day to build community through books!