Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art & publishing collective producing editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books. The Presse favors emerging, international, and "forgotten" writers with well-defined formal or conceptual projects that are difficult to place at other presses. Its full-length books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, magazine and newspaper all contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.
The Art Resources Transfer has donated over 400,000 books to public libraries, schools, prisons, and alternative education centers nationwide. Help them reach their fundraising goal to continue supporting equal access to the arts:
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Congratulations Diana Hamilton!
Group shot of performers for 7th Annual Bisexual Book Awards Multi-Arts Reading
June 16, mark your calendar! Ear Wave Event's new issue has a release party! UDP authors David Grubbs and Anna Vitale are in the mix! Come through.
A print issue! Distribution technologies largely define our notions of the mediated experience of the sonic. The buying, selling, and exchange of stereo audio in digital and analog formats prescribes what constitutes the musical experience. In concert, artists often attempt a performative presentati...
Chronology won a Lammy! Congratulations Zahra Patterson on this recognition of your stunning work
6/10 deadline-- prize for immigrant writers!
The Vilcek Foundation is now seeking applications for the 2020 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science and Literature!
last week of Bruce Pearson's show at Ronald Feldman Gallery! Check out hybrid/collaborations of Pearson's with with poets Claudia Rankine, Anselm Berrigan, Mónica de la Torre and others.
Congratulations Anne Boyer! A Handbook of Disappointed Fate is a finalist for the Firecracker Awards!
Celebrating the Best of Independently Published Literature The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently and Self- Published Literature celebrates books and magazines that make a sparkling contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers...
I Remember Nightfall and Calamities are two of the books you'll look at in the Sentence workshop with Alexis Almeida. It's on Saturday, June 15 at our studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Space is limited. Book the workshop now at http://tiny.cc/nb0c7y
Tomorrow welcome to join Zahra Patterson for an afternoon reading of queer nonfiction before the Lambda Awards, along with Barrie Jean Borich and Sandra Gail Lambert . More event info: http://ow.ly/xVvk50ujI8u
Tonight at 7:30, please join Lisa Rogal at the Spring reading event, along with Denise Milstein, Rachel Pearl and Dan Poppick with Spotless Leopards at Unnameable Books.
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Chronology and I Have Never Been Able to Sing are two of the books you'll look at in the Sentence workshop with Alexis Almeida. It's on Saturday, June 15 at our studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Space is limited. Book the workshop now at http://tiny.cc/nb0c7y
Powerful message in this interview.
I’m a poet even if I’m writing in my second language, I’m a poet even without any formal training in writing.
Tomorrow at 7:30 pm, please join Lisa Rogal at the Spring reading event, along with Denise Milstein, Rachel Pearl and Dan Poppick with Spotless Leopards at Unnameable Books.
Performances begin 8:30ish in the white rock stone garden or according to the whims of the weather, in the comfortable book-lined basement. All events are free.
Dear readers, welcome to join a Sentence Workshop with Alexis Almeida on Saturday, June 15 at our studio in Brooklyn.
In this intimate workshop, you'll study and explore through the work of writers, filmmakers and visual artists.
Book the ticket now at http://tiny.cc/rrwc7y
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"How did Fama invent a tone so perfect and icy, so equal to our times?" — Wayne Koestenbaum
our Ben Fama bundle continues—get both DEATH WISH and FANTASY for $25.
Shop here: https://shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/deathwish-fantasy-special
Friends in Beacon, welcome to spend your Friday night with Anna Moschovakis and Jeffrey Yang, who will be reading poetry at Binnacle Books.
More event details at: http://ow.ly/W2AL50ulf0C
FRIDAY in Cambridge: join us at Grolier Poetry Book Shop in celebrating our two new books of Latin American poetry in English translation: Amanda Berenguer's MATERIA PRIMA & Reina María Rodríguez's WINTER GARDEN PHOTOGRAPH.
More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/269320740526720/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1557934812988499
Jena Osman's Motion Studies is reviewed on Publishers Weekly: "Through rich and interesting archival materials, the book highlights Osman’s lyrical skill and expert craftsmanship."
Purchase the book at http://tiny.cc/hq016y
"Can love exist without passion? Is this maybe the most fruitful kind of love? Laura Riding asks these questions in her novel Convalescent Conversations"—reviewed by @juliaciri
Read the full review at: http://ow.ly/KiyT50ujKeh
Find the book at http://ow.ly/oBLO50ujKee
By Julia Cirignano Thank you to Ugly Duckling Presse for gifting me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Can love exist without passion? Is this maybe the most fruitful kind of lo…
Congrats to Moss & Silver being one of the finalists for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry on The Millions!
Check out the whole list here: http://ow.ly/xjMs50ujFKn
Also you may also order the book here: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=560
The Best Translated Books Awards today named its 2019 finalists for fiction and poetry.
Materia Prima sale is almost over! You can still snag this for half off using discount code WINGENIOUS at checkout!
Asymptote calls this collection "long overdue" and celebrates these poems for their "sheer constructedness... as flagrant as those exposed brick interiors with a grid of metal beams for a ceiling."
Get this striking, bold book for just $11 today!
Materia PrimaAmanda Berenguer edited by Kristin Dykstra, Kent JohnsonPoetry | $22 $18 Spring 2019 BuyPress Release (PDF)"urgent work, 'wingenious' and 'mythovulsive'"—Pierre JorisMateria Prima is the first English-language collection of Amanda Berenguer's poetry. A key contributor to Uruguay's fam...
For our backlist blogging series, From the Vaults: Claudia La Rocco on Cedar Sigo's SELECTED WRITINGS (which was UDP's very first full-length first perfect-bound book!) https://uglyducklingpresse.tumblr.com/post/184877477799/from-the-vaults-claudia-la-rocco-on-cedar-sigos
Check out Sigo's book here: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=58
Congrats to Jure Detela's Moss & Silver being mentioned on The Millions in the Best Translated Book Award 2019: Poetry Longlist!
You can order the book at http://ow.ly/72pX50u9PKk
See the full list at https://themillions.com/2019/04/best-translated-book-awards-names-2019-longlists.html
The titles vying for this year's best literature in translation hail from 24 different countries, from authors writing in 16 different languages.
Hi folks! Skull + Wind Press is running a $20k campaign by the new year. They are a small press trying to establish in New Mexico and foster local art communities. If you would be so kind, please help them achieve the goal!
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Laura Solomon's two UDP books are now available for purchase in a $20 bundle! see here: http://ow.ly/ZAEI50u5xgG
Check out what Solomon has been up to as co-director of @WoodlandPattern in Milwaukee, and enjoy her recent poem in @TheBrooklynRail: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/05/poetry/Husbands-Are-Deadlier-Than-Terrorists
Tomorrow at 4:30 PM, UDP author Diana Hamilton reads alongside Lauren Levin, as part of the Segue Reading Series at Zinc Bar.
Check out Diana Hamilton’s UDP works, which you can buy together for $20, here: http://ow.ly/mjta50u5uZV
Materia Prima is 1) amazing, and 2) on sale.
Use code WINGENIOUS at checkout for half off this book!
"known for [her] poetic experimentation, still, her transformations will startle the reader." Check out this review, if you need convincing.
Materia Prima at Ugly Duckling Press
Sale! Special package of 2 titles by Ben Fama for $25! Get into these sexy alienated/alienating beautiful books!
This set includes Ben Fama's 2019 release, Deathwish (Newest York) and Fantasy (UDP, 2015). More about each title: Deathwish Ben Fama's Deathwish drops us back into the beauty and the fantasies teased out in his first book Fantasy, re-braiding them through BDSM scenarios, metaphysical inquiries, and...
Materia Prima is still on sale but not for long! Use code WINGENIOUS at checkout for half off! I mean, look at this!?!!
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TONIGHT! Dissenting Poetics at UDP via Pen World Voices Festival! Simone White, Valzhyna Mort, Kirill Medvedev, Marianna Kiyanovska! Come get this urgent magic!
free with RSVP!
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A really nice quote...
“Why don’t words come automatically with threads that we can yank to pull them back inside ourselves?”
Read an excerpt from “Bitter Orange,” the latest novel from The Man Booker Prize shortlisters Jokha Alharthi and translator Marilyn Booth. Alharthi is the first Gulf writer to be nominated for the prize, for her novel “Celestial Bodies” (Sandstone Press). Check out her newest work: https://bit.ly/2GGfZ2Y
Tomorrow! May 8th! #penfest Dissenting Poetics at UDP, with Valzhyna Mort, Kirill Medvedev, Marianna Kiyanovska, Simone White. Come through!
When brilliant poets write about politics, the resulting works can break hearts, change minds, and redefine worlds. Renowned poets Kirill Medvedev (Russia), Valzhyna Mort (Belarus/U.S.), Marianna Kiyanovska (Ukraine), and Simone White (U.S.) channel historical trauma through their work; each writer....
late but right on time appreciating this Zein Sa'dedin jam in Muzzle Mag
😍😍😍
https://www.muzzlemagazine.com/zein-sarsquodedin.html
SALE! Half off Amanda Berenguer's Materia Prima with the code WINGENIOUS at checkout!
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TONIGHT at FiveMyles in Crown Heights, a night of poetry and conversation with Double Change, a bilingual French-English poetry association.
UDP author Zahra Paterson will read in conversation with Omar Berrada (who will read Aimé Césaire) and Laynie Browne. Text drawings accompanying Laynie Browne's work, illustrated by UDP author Sarah Riggs (60 TEXTOS 2010) are on show.
More info here: http://ow.ly/Yxkr30ow0Iq
Paterson's CHRONOLOGY (UDP 2018) is available here: http://ow.ly/qvBz30ow0A7
Tomorrow night at McNally Jackson: book party with UDP author Lewis Warsh and novelist/neurologist Pedram Navab!
You can see Warsh's ALIEN ABDUCTION (2015) and the digital proof of his chapbook, FLIGHT TEST (2006), here: http://ow.ly/z3Zn30ovUG6
tomorrow! 8pm! Come see the authors of these beautiful blue books & maybe get beautiful and blue, too!
Lost Horizon has a "great & wild simultaneity" (Danielle Dutton). Of I Have Never Been Able to Sing, Rene Gladman says, "I feel the bend, the contraction, the shudder in the crossing between what one has never done and what one is."
Come through for Nathaniel Farrell and Alexis Almieda! Also other great readers and music!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2215765838737339/
UDP is holding an open reading period for manuscripts in the month of May 2019, considering work for 2021 publication.
Please check the submissions guidelines on our website and submit via the link to submittable. We're looking forward to reading your work !
Mission | People | History | FAQ | Support | Contact | Submissions | Press | Opportunities New Periodical Submissions UDP is starting a new poetry periodical, and we’d love to consider your work. Please send* up to 5 pages of poetry with a brief (half-page) introd...
More pictures from our 25 year anniversary benefit are up on our blog, featuring the second half of the night, which included live performances by Erica Hunt and Ray Anderson, DJ D-Skillz, and Damon & Naomi!
https://uglyducklingpresse.tumblr.com/post/184554559159/udp-the-first-25-years-part-2
Aghhh!!! POETRY AS FORCES after Cecilia Vicuna by Andrea Abi-Karam
The
Thinking about how to learn, how to begin. Shouts out Cecilia Vicuna, too!
I am thinking about Will Alexander. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I am thinking about Cecilia Vicuña. I am thinking of poets and...
Book launch for MOTION STUDIES by Jena Osman, who will be in conversation with Cathy Park Hong, this Wednesday, May 1st. 7:30 at Greenlight Bookstore Fort Greene. More info here: http://ow.ly/t5Ld30okvid
Fort Greene Store: Wednesday, May 1, 7:30 PM Jena Osman presents Motion Studies In conversation with Cathy Park Hong
Readers in Pittsburgh! Tomorrow at brillobox, come join us at this reading event as part of the multi-city, many-month celebration of UDP's first 25 years!
See the featured UDP authors at http://ow.ly/MQdF30ovOEB
Jena Osman's Motion Studies is in and is ready for shipping!
"A tour de force of documentary, speculative fiction, film criticism, and lyric jump cuts…"—Douglas Kearney
Order the book at http://ow.ly/6gcp30ovRwu
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Sho Sugita reads from his translation of Hirato Renkichi's "Toad" at Pierogi last Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out to the book party! And if you're in Brooklyn, you can catch Sugita at Earshot | Helal, Languell, Mok, Sugita tomorrow night.
Urayoán Noel truly makes translingual poetry a possibility
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Matvei gives a wonderful speech thanking those who have contributed to UDP.
An inside look at Maybe S., tucked inside each copy of Seydel's new Songs of S. Enter discount code MAYBE for $3 off now through November 1: http://bit.ly/1wrpoz2
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