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06/13/2025

We’re at this weekend, table D27, cozied up with friends , come say hi!

We’ll give you a poem 🤩

06/09/2025

This weekend in Berlin! UDP will be at with new spring books. And don’t miss “Rereading Mirtha Dermisache” with and Rebekah Smith on Saturday the 14th at 1:30.

06/05/2025

The UDP studio will be closed from June 13–29! Please place all orders before June 9 to receive books before July—or shop at 📒

06/01/2025

Happy pub day to our June books! Can’t wait to get these in your hands.

05/28/2025

Last week’s visit from — we talked about independent publishing, nonprofit structures, and sewed copies of Don’t Hide the Madness by Nhã Thuyên, translated by Kaitlin Rees.

05/17/2025

** Second Edition ** Palm-Lined with Potience is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allen’s debut collection of poems. Basie’s work is by turns political and lyrical, charting both physical and emotional landscapes, making maps of paintings and paintings of maps. Rooted in Pro-Black theory, art, and precise description, Basie makes space in the ekphrastic for the eerie and abstract. The poems in this collection search for nodes of truth in a tumultuous sea of fractured facts.

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And see you at the launch on May 30 **

05/01/2025

Happy pub date to our May books and happy International Workers’ Day!

04/21/2025

We’ve got spring books, misprints, and too many boxes 🪽🌷

03/27/2025

** Forthcoming May 1 ** The Hand of the Hand brings us to a future in which earth, animal, and human intertwine—where stomachs have meadows, milk pours over trees, and flies wash the dead. Beautifully translated by Shira Abramovich and Lénaïg Cariou, Laura Vazquez pulls deceptively simple, bare language into puzzling formations.

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02/27/2025

Join us on March 6 at 7pm for a celebration of the second edition of The Final Nite & Other Poems, Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987-2006 by poet and collagist Steve Dalachinsky (1946–2019), whom Amiri Baraka called “a poet of the real world.” The book chronicles nearly two decades of verse written while listening to live performances by the musician Charles Gayle. Ugly Duckling Presse will celebrate this second edition and its new introduction by Yuko Otomo with a choral reading of The Final Nite by Ugly Duckling Presse collaborators, old and new. Readers will include Yuko Otomo, Anna Moschovakis, Jeffrey Nelson, Micheal Ruby, Filip Marinovich, Linda Trimbath, Anneysa Gaille, James Barickman, Sara Malagón Llano, Keri Kelly, Sarah Passino, Marine Cornuet, Milo Wippermann, and Madeline R Braun,.

Steve Dalachinsky (1946–2019) was a poet and collagist. His books included Fools Gold (New Feral Press), Flying Home (Paris Lit Up Press), The Invisible Ray (Overpass Press), Black Magic (New Feral Press), Where Night and Day Become One: The French Poems (Great Weather for Media), The Chicken Whisper (Positive Magnets Press), and more. Dalachinsky received the PEN Oakland National Book Award for his book The Final Nite (UDP), a 2014 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a 2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for his poem “Particle Fever.”

Yuko Otomo is a visual artist and a bilingual (Japanese/English) writer of Japanese origin. She writes poetry, haiku, art criticism, travelogues, and essays. Her publications include Garden: Selected Haiku (Beehive Press), Genesis (Sisyphus Press), Small Poems (UDP), The Hand of The Poet (UDP), Study (UDP), Elements (the Feral Press), KOAN (New Feral Press), Frozen Heatwave, a collaboration with Steve Dalachinsky (Luna Bisonte Prods), and Envelope (Poems-For-All).

02/25/2025

During the month of March, UDP will be fundraising for another year of collective experimentation and shoestring publishing with the sale of a special, limited-edition book produced by the collective.

Everything could be is a 30-page exquisite corpse–style poem composed of previously discarded “darling” lines donated by 155 UDP authors, translators, and friends—including Anne Boyer, Dodie Bellamy, Don Mee Choi, Julian T. Brolaski, Rachel Levitsky, Lewis Freedman, sadé powell, and Cole Swensen.

Letterpress-printed and bound with a Japanese stab stitch at the UDP studio, each limited-edition book will cost $75. Through sales, donations, and a celebratory party in early April, our goal is to raise $25,000 to support UDP’s day-to-day operations, printing costs, and wages.

The way UDP is organized is unusual: editorial work—including selecting manuscripts and working with authors and translators during the editing phase—is shared by over fifteen volunteer collective members and contributing editors. The rest of the tasks associated with bookmaking—design and printing, administrative labor of managing the studio, applying for grants, and producing, distributing, and promoting over sixteen titles a year is managed by a part-time staff of four.

The commitment and donated labor of UDP’s editors means we can publish a more diverse and robust list than we could otherwise; we work hard to ensure that even as rent and production costs increase (and as federal funding is threatened), the studio staff can be fairly compensated and we can continue to publish work that is new, experimental, and challenging.

Thank you for being part of UDP, and for considering supporting us now and in the future. Sales of Everything could be begin March 1.

02/17/2025

Register at the link in bio 💌 Join us for Night for Impossible Light: Mutual Aid 4 Gaza on February 22 at 4pm. Hosted in the UDP studio, the fundraiser will feature a virtual conversation with the founders of Impossible Light, a mutual aid organization providing direct relief to Gaza, followed by a reading of liberation-themed poetry and prose. A letterpressed chapbook with writing from Hiba Abu Nada, Hind Joudah, Noor Aldeen Hajjaj, and Ahmed Mortaja sourced from the incredible site will also be available for purchase. All ticket and chapbook sales will be donated to Impossible Light.

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