‘The University of Skip’: Remembering the late Arkansas writer Donald ‘Skip’ Hays

‘The University of Skip’: Remembering the late Arkansas writer Donald ‘Skip’ Hays

Arkansas has produced a number of significant artists who are important figures in their chosen field but who also remain stubbornly, indisputably Arkansan to their core. Add or subtract as you wish, but my personal list would include: Johnny Cash, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Levon Helm, Al Green, Pharaoh Sanders and Iris DeMent in music. Frank Stanford and C.D. Wright in poetry. Charles Portis in fiction. Jeff Nichols in film. Mike Disfarmer in phot…