Jack Butler – Mud Flat Press

New — A Review Page for Jack Butler’s Firefish

October 23, 2025October 21, 2025 by Mud Flat Press

We have already had some excellent reviews for Jack Butler’s Firefish: The Collected Poems on the book’s page. Now with a magnificent review and overview of Jack’s writing by Philip Martin, that was published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, we have created a page for the book’s reviews.

Mud Flat Press Is Proud to Announce the Publication of Jack Butler’s Firefish: The Collected Poems

October 21, 2025July 17, 2025 by Mud Flat Press

When Gabi and I were publishing Mississippi Arts & Letters in the 1980s we had the great good luck to have a poetry editor, Larry Johnson, who knew more about literature than anyone we had ever known, and who introduced us to the works of a slew of great poetry and fiction writers. The … Read more

New Books In the Works

August 3, 2025November 8, 2023 by Alec Clayton

I just finished the third complete rewrite of my latest novel, The Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson. Before we can publish it, Gabi Clayton has to edit it and design the cover, and before that, we have to publish two new books we’re working on: Mud Flate Verse, a collection of poems by … Read more