Ugly Duckling Presse

02/26/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

The authors, artists and thinkers who have given their efforts to our 2020 pamphlet series are everything. Subscribe now to receive work by Mirene Arsanios, Omar Berrada, Sergio Chejfec, Don Mee Choi, Kunci Study Forum and Collective, and many others using the pamphlet as a tool to connect with the present. Learn more and subscribe here.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/25/2020

BERLIN:
Erica Baum has a solo-exhibition coming up at KLEMM'S, from March 6 - April 18. Opening reception is March 6, 6 - 9pm.

A METHOD OF CLOAK is Erica Baum’s first solo exhibition with KLEMM'S, presenting her current series Patterns – photographs spawning from the guidelines and booklets made for the home tailor. Drawing a line between the "dictate" of fashion and the language of sewing patterns, Baum is letting the mulit-lingual words resonate on their own, freed from the canvas of a sentence. In contrast with the primary function of those manuals, which were aimed at "controlling" the body through arrangements, lines and cuts, these collaged 'photographs' open the unexpected – while the poetic quality known from earlier series is strongly at play, Erica Baum's Patterns bring to mind the political sub-tones, palpable below the surface of the images.

02/24/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

Have you subscribed to our pamphlet series yet? 20 cute, urgent booklets by authors like Iris Cushing, Simon Cutts, Nicole Cecilia Delgado and others exploring the pamphlet as a way of engaging with the present in this year of perfect vision.
4 installments, free shipping. Learn more and subscribe here.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/21/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

"the poem is a site of self-recognition. It occasions in the reader the realization of “belonging to a community of feeling.” To understand the poem is to see one’s self in the experience and for this reason the poem becomes a means of species identification."
-- Magdalena Zurawski in a forthcoming pamphlet in our 2020 series. Receive this and much more urgent, contemporary thought and discourse by subscribing to our pamphlet series.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/20/2020

Knots of a Woman: A discussion of A Swarm of Bees… | Poetry Foundation

PoemTalk podcast this week (#143) is on Tonya Foster's "A Swarm of Bees in High Court" with Stephanie Burt, Bonnie Costello, Anna Strong Safford, and Al Filreis.

Tonya Foster's book is forthcoming at UDP in 2021!

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Stephanie Burt, Bonnie Costello, and Anna Strong Safford.

02/19/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

in 2020 UDP is releasing 20 new pamphlets with new thoughts and writing on subjects close to our heart. Check out work by authors like Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, Dimitra Ioannou, Sibyl Kempson and others. Learn more and subscribe here.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/17/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

"I come from a land of neocolonial fratricide. I come from such twoness. I speak as a twin. The US established a temporary military rule of Korea from 1945 to 1948 and has never left… In time of war, the US military has operational control over South Korean forces. And since we are still technically at war, we are also technically and perpetually under US military command."
- Don Mee Choi in one of the pamphlets from our new 2020 series.
Learn more about this responsive, urgent work and subscribe here.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/17/2020

Ugly Duckling Presse: Sawako Nakayasu

Sawako Nakayasu will be reading with Moncho Alvarado at Zinc Bar for the Segue Reading Series this Saturday (February 29) 4:30-6:30pm. $5 admission goes to support the readers.

The full Segue Reading Series calendar is here: http://www.seguefoundation.com/calendar.htm

Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation—separately and in various combinations. She has lived mostly in the US and Japan, briefly in France and China, and translates from Japanese. Her books include The Ants (Les Figues Press), Texture Notes (Letter Machine...

02/14/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

Broke: valentines greetings.

Woke: 20 pamphlets about topics like collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing, commissioned and released by UDP in 2020.

If you want to be good at courtship, subscribe your lover to our pamphlet series.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/13/2020

"For all the excitement this book stirs in me, it is something of a meditative experience. It is a strangely refreshing reminder that peace need not be stagnant or lacking in vitality."

MATERIA PRIMA by Amanda Berenguer reviewed by John Venegas on Angel City Review: http://ow.ly/yr4R50ylYDK

Get the book here: http://ow.ly/tt1i50ylYDL

02/13/2020

How does one portray the wind ? (Comment faire le portrait du vent ?)

Marcelline Delbecq, author of CAMERA, is apart of an exhibit at image/imatge.
"How does one portray the wind? / Comment faire le portrait du vent?" open until May 2.

More on CAMERA: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/camera/

image/imatge est une association de promotion et diffusion de l’image et de la photographie contemporaine sur les territoires d’Orthez, des Pyrénées-Atlantiques et de la région Aquitaine.

02/12/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

subscribe to our 2020 pamphlet series to get new thinking and writing from authors like Claudia La Rocco, Aditi Machado, Chantal Maillard and others. Sent in four installments, free shipping, unparalleled incisiveness. Learn more and subscribe here.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/10/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

Our pamphlet series for 2020 returns us to our zine-making roots, and to a form which is both sustained and ephemeral. Subscribe now to get pamphlets 4x a year with free shipping on subjects like translation, colonialism, voice, cultural production, collectivity and performance.

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Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/08/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

Check out UDP's new pamphlet series for 2020! 20 pamphlets on topics close to UDP's hybrid global heart, by authors like Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Sawako Nakayasu, Tammy Nguyen and others.

4 installments, free shipping. A great value-for-idea exchange. Learn more and subscribe here.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/06/2020

tomorrow! Jennifer Firestone and Julia Block at Unnameable Books !

https://www.facebook.com/events/493049664929232/

02/06/2020

Small Press Distribution included Anna Gurton-Wachter's UTOPIA PIPE DREAM MEMORY in their February Handpicked Books list. Get it on their site for 20% off the cover price for the entire month using code HANDPICKED.

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From UTOPIA PIPE DREAM MEMORY:

To enter the realm of writing is to suffer losses. Run off other sufferers, run off. I wanted to but could not say run off.

02/06/2020

2020 Pamphlet Series Subscription

Subscribe to UDP's 2020 twenty pamphlet series! Authors like Aleksandr Skidan, Magdelena Zurawski, Steven Zultanski throw together pamphlets on topics like creativity, performance, translation, collaboration and poetics.

4 installments, free shipping. Learn more and subscribe here.

Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on subjects close to UDP’s commitments — collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing — each offering a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for...

02/05/2020

Jen Bervin's NETS on view as part of Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800, an exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale. More on NETS here.

https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/nets/

Thanks to Karla Kelsey for the photos.

https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed

02/04/2020

“At the tip of the pencil the line”: Creative poetry workshop

registration for Silvina López Medin's creative poetry workshop at the New York Public Library closes tomorrow, get into it. https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2020/03/03/tip-pencil-line-creative-poetry-workshop

Workshop Description

02/04/2020

Did you know? In 2020 we are releasing 20 commissioned pamphlets of new work and new thinking. Each one offers a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present.

The pamphlets address issues close to UDP's heart, including collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing. Sent out in four installments with free shipping! Learn more and subscribe here.

https://shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/2020-pamphlet-subscription

01/31/2020

Tomorrow! Indigenous Kinship Collective fundraiser/party to support collecttive members headed to SXSW to be on the panel, You Are On Indigenous Land and We Are Still Here. Join IKC at the Sunview Luncheonette for smooth jams, drinks, and def some fun. Suggested donation $5-$10

01/31/2020

Congrats to Chantal Maillard and translator Yvette Siegert for the announcement of KILLING PLATO (@NewDirections) as a finalist for the PEN Award for poetry in translation!

Look out for a pamphlet by Maillard later this year, as part of our 2020 series:
http://ow.ly/Gwe150y9AWu

01/30/2020

An interview with Kent Johnson and Kristin Dykstra, editors of MATERIA PRIMA by Amanda Berenguer, up now on @RainTaxiReview : https://www.raintaxi.com/a-very-full-large-and-luminous-space-the-poetry-of-amanda-berenguer/?fbclid=IwAR1ocXWBgxUGv_4ABgE_Ifl9fCskZaj-y0KxrOQkZ7-ALzpLMFLRjUxJST8

more on the book here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/materia-prima/

01/30/2020

“Verdicts”

"For economic, moral, political, and behavioral crimes, the polecat, fox, squirrel, badger, chipmunk, vole, jay, lark, raven and crow, deer and badger, kangaroo and its joeys, whale and shark, pike, swan and crab, and all their ilk shall be sentenced to various terms of punishment in various places..."
Prigov's Soviet Texts excerpted in The New Yorker, here and in Feb 3rd print issue.

More on Soviet Texts here:

https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/soviet-texts/

“Since the Middle Ages, animals have been put on trial for violating the supreme, metaphorical, social, and human order.”

01/30/2020

Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists

"... I kissed you
on your modern photo paper
and we blurred in an instant"

The Winter Garden Photograph is a finalist for PEN's poetry in translation award.

more about Winter Garden Photograph here
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/the-winter-garden-photograph/

PEN America is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards.

01/29/2020

“At the tip of the pencil the line”: Creative poetry workshop

"consider what sets our writing in motion, how our poems move from first to last line, what tools might help us keep our creative processes going."

One more week to register for Silvina López Medin's poetry workshop at @nypl !
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2020/03/03/tip-pencil-line-creative-poetry-workshop

Workshop Description

01/28/2020

Poetry Book Review: Story by Jennifer Firestone. Ugly Duckling, $18 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-946433-33-6

"a skillful and philosophically rich addition to Firestone’s stimulating body of work"

Sweet little review of STORY in Publisher's Weekly

The perceptive fifth collection from Firestone (Ten) reflects on its own movement through time, language, and experience, slowly revealing the story of a couple and challenging the implicit d

01/27/2020

STORY, Jennifer Firestone’s fifth book of poetry from Ugly Duckling Presse, reviewed by David Karp

"In Story, Firestone has matched all these usable, stably unstable forms to a restrained, disciplined diction that can ring bitter changes on even such simple words as “glasses” or “sand.” -- Jennifer Firestone's Story reviewed in Heavy Feather Review

more about Story here:
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/story/

Story, by Jennifer Firestone. Brooklyn, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, December 2019. 144 pages. $14.00, paper. One regular feature of contemporary writing instruction is the dictum that the write…

01/24/2020

Backlist Bulletin #6: NETS

Check out the new Backlist Bulletin on Jen Bervin's NETS and erasure as a queer art.

https://medium.com/ugly-duckling-presse/backlist-bulletin-6-nets-a08b49d93b90

Then, today only! Get 50% off NETS with code DISAPPEAR.

NETS is not strictly an erasure, so much as an idea of an erasure. The title is taken from inside the letters “The Sonnets of William…

01/23/2020

Backlist Bulletin #6: NETS

new Backlist Bulletin on Jen Bervin's NETS and the queerness of erasure!

More on NETS here:
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/nets/

NETS is not strictly an erasure, so much as an idea of an erasure. The title is taken from inside the letters “The Sonnets of William…

01/23/2020

Tomorrow night, 7PM! @e_flux

A reading from Andrei Monastyrski's ELEMENTARY POETRY (UDP 2019) with translators Yelena Kalinsky and Brian Droitcour, with an introduction by Boris Groys.

Check out the book here: http://ow.ly/5Va350xRq7F

Event info here: http://ow.ly/MbrR50xRq9Y

01/23/2020

Ugly Duckling Presse: Andean Nuclear Spring

Agustín Guambo’s ANDEAN NUCLEAR SPRING (tr. Carlos Moreno, UDP 2019) is featured with a playlist on @versedotpress:

http://ow.ly/NVrc50xXlyR

Check out the chapbook here: http://ow.ly/uE8050xXlyT

Agustín Guambo’s Andean Nuclear Spring is a literary artifice that situates us in the heart of the post-apocalypse in Quito. In this nuclear spring, Quito could be any other city in Latin America: a reality populated by plain landscapes, dreams, rhinoceri, the changing direction of wind, ashes an...

01/22/2020

Straight Lines, Knots, Quarter Turns — Repeat: Movement as a Mode of Thought — Free 10-Session Workshop with Rebekah Smith and Asiya Wadud - The Poetry Project

"explore ways in which movement creates meaning, develops feeling, forms thought; how motion, direction, and circulation all might intertwine and get tangled up in our writing, as we write and as our writing moves in the world."

Starts Feb 4! 10-wk workshop w Asiya Wadud & Rebekah Smith at The Poetry Project Limited space, registration ends Friday.

This workshop seeks to explore ways in which movement creates meaning, develops feeling, forms thought; how motion, direction, and circulation all might intertwine and get tangled up in our writing, as we write and as our writing moves in the world. Starting with questions, impulses, and gestures, w...