
12/12/2020
UDP is hosting a holiday sale from now until December 17th! Be sure to get your orders in before our winter break as we will be out of office until early January. Happy holidays! #whoneedspoetry
UDP endeavors to create an experience of art free of expectation, coercion, and utility. Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art & publishing collective producing editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books.
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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.
Mission: On or off the page, UDP creates spaces in which people have an experience of art free of expectation, coercion, and utility.
Operating as usual
UDP is hosting a holiday sale from now until December 17th! Be sure to get your orders in before our winter break as we will be out of office until early January. Happy holidays! #whoneedspoetry
Emily Hunt will be hosting weekly online seminars on "Living in Long Poems" starting Wednesday, January 27th. This seminar will focus on reading and responding to poems that stretch out over the length of chapbooks and full-length collections. Taking cues from writers and inspiration from assigned generative writing exercises, participants will draft a long poem of their own over the course of 5 weeks, sharing selections of it with the group as it develops. Class sessions will meet synchronously via Zoom. Artists of all backgrounds are encouraged to participate. Follow the link below to register.
LIVING IN LONG POEMS with Emily Hunt A five-week online seminar held over Zoom. 6:00pm to 8:30pmWednesdays, January 27 to February 24 Great long poems create space for contradiction, drifting, deepening, dailiness, loss, epiphany, and revival. This seminar will focus on reading and responding to poe...
Congratulations to Carina del Valle Schorske for receiving a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction grant for her forthcoming book The Other Island!
"An exceptional investigation of colonization and gentrification, of art and family, The Other Island will be a marvelous and most necessary addition to Puerto Rican literature." The Other Island is to be published by Riverhead Books.
The project: The Other Island is an exploration of empire, migration, and the transmission of culture in Puerto Rico—the world’s longest-existing colony—viewed through the author’s shifting relationship to the archipelago as a child of diaspora during a time of historic crisis. These linked ...
The UDP Classics Holiday Bundle is on sale now! A sampling of five classic UDP titles, specially wrapped in kraft paper letterpressed at our studio by Peter Kazantsev from handset metal type. To order, follow the link below!
Our Latin American Poetry Sampler is available for purchase! This gift set of Latin American poetry includes five bilingual editions of UDP translations in Spanish and Portuguese, discounted and specially wrapped. To order, follow the link below!
Tomorrow at 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST, Poet Chris Martin (UDP) curates the 16th installment in a weekly series of Radical Poetry Readings for The Brooklyn Rail, featuring Hannah Emerson, Adam Wolfond, Lauren Russell, Farid Matuk. This event will be held over Zoom. For more information on how to register, follow the link below.
#191 | Poet Chris Martin curates the 16th installment in a weekly series of Radical Poetry Readings, featuring Hannah Emerson, Adam Wolfond, Lauren Russell, Farid Matuk.
UDP is hosting a holiday sale from now until December 17th! Be sure to get your orders in before our winter break as we will be out of office until early January. Happy holidays! #whoneedspoetry
The Dec. 1 episode of the Free City Radio podcast featured an interview with UDP's Matvei Yankelevich and Sarah Lawson on bookmaking in 2020, lost poets, and building community around writing.
Listen below on Soundcloud, or on Apple Podcasts at https://apple.co/3go9Zfb
Sharing the 18th edition of Free City Radio. This episode includes an interview with writer, musician and professor Yassin Alsalman @thenarcicyst on a recently published poetry collection, "Text Mess
This rainy weekend (at least in NYC) you might check out this recording of a Poetry Project event in celebration of Anne Tardos's new book with Anne, Jerome Rothenberg and Lyn Hejinian.
https://www.poetryproject.org/publications/house-party/house-party-16/celebrating-the-exploding-nothingness-of-never-define?fbclid=IwAR2xA6HcsDDCsI0LmUctoZzxeh9l1lqPz5NTV_t_SsE0DggRffN_CvWOje8
We experiment and model what can happen when a community radically organizes around poetry.
UDP author Saretta Morgan will be reading with Jennifer Scappettone for the Segue Reading Series this Saturday, December 5, 5-6:30 pm on Zoom (https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series-saretta-morgan-jennifer-scappettone). $5 contribution goes to support the readers, but no viewer will be turned away due to lack of funds. The full Series calendar is here: https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series
You can read Saretta's *feeling upon arrival* here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/feeling-upon-arrival/
Sending you a postcard this #givingtuesday. Art by Joey Perr.
Your support is essential to us, especially this year. Thank you.
Erica Baum, author of Dog Ear (2016) has work in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York's exhibition Pictures, Revisited, on view through May 9, 2021.
A deep dive into the Met's rich collection of contemporary photography, Pictures, Revisited reassesses the legacy of visual appropriation at the Museum and beyond.
Listen to the 154th episode Al Filreis's PoemTalk series via
Jacket2, this episode with Simone White, Angela Carr, and Kate Colby on the prose poem “The Similitude of This Great Flower” by Elizabeth Willis.
This past summer, Graver Goods Press launched their independent creative writing program, Impracticum, which offers an eight-week curriculum of workshops, seminars, craft lectures, and readings led by accomplished authors—plus a community involvement component.
This winter's Impracticum is "Eight Prison-Breaks (Beyond Traditional Narrative)" with David Shields. Click below to learn more about this program, the organization, or to register for the upcoming Impracticum:
This Summer Graver Goods launched Impracticum, an independent creative writing program offering a unique curriculum of eight-week workshops, seminars, craft lectures, and readings. Our inaugural...
Åke Hodell, author of UDP's The Marathon Poet, will be featured in an exhibit with the Tensta konsthall art center in Stockholm from now through January 17th. Åke Hodell: Resistance - An exhibition with 5 live programs presents a number of his most well-known works, with igevär (1963), Orderbuch (1965), Where is Eldridge Cleaver? (1969) and Strindbergiana (1987) as well as lesser-known works. Hodell’s works are the source of inspiration for a program of live acts in which musicians and concrete poets relate to Hodell’s works in a multitude of ways. For more information about this event, follow the link below. http://tenstakonsthall.se/?ke-hodell-resistance-an-exhibition-with-5-acts
UDP author Jennifer Nelson will be reading with Evan Kennedy for the Segue Reading Series this Saturday, November 28, 5-6:30 pm on Zoom (Meeting ID: 830 2698 4031). $5 contribution goes to support the readers, but no viewer will be turned away due to lack of funds.
The full Series calendar is here: https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series
Jennifer Nelson is the author of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife (UDP); Civilization Makes Me Lonely, winner of the Sawtooth Prize (Ahsahta); and Harm Eden (UDP). Her work has appeared in Panda’s Friend, A Perfect Vacuum, Social Text, The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere; she was th...
"Choi’s translations occur across an expansive idea of language which includes photos, maps, notes, human gestures, bodies, birds, latitudes, even the mental state of longing. She makes this explicit in in the pamphlet..."
—"Mapping Modes of Allegiance: The Radical Translations of Don Mee Choi," On the Seawall
Congratulations to UDP author Don Mee Choi, whose most recent poetry collection, DMZ Colony, has won the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry! Check out her contribution to our 2020 Pamphlet Series here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/translation-is-a-modetranslation-is-an-anti-neocolonial-mode/
TONIGHT at 9:30 pm: "Remotely Personal Greetings" (w/ Unnameable Books).
On Thursday, Nov. 19th, UDP author Joyelle McSweeney is doing a virtual reading with Sara Larsen, Jeremy Kennedy, and Rod Roland.
More info and details on how to join the Zoom event here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/events/remotely-personal-greetings-joyelle-mcsweeney-sara-larsen-jeremy-kennedy-rod-roland/
Remotely Personal Greetings: Joyelle McSweeney, Sara Larsen, Jeremy Kennedy, & Rod Roland November 19, 2020, 9:30 pm at Unnameable Books
Tammy Nguyen's virtual exhibition Cave Matter is now live in partnership with Hesse Flatow. Cave Matter is an exhibition of new paintings by Tammy Nguyen which draws from her recent written work Phong Nha, The Making of An American Smile (UDP, 2020) as part of UDP's 2020 pamphlet series. To view the exhibition as well as order a copy of Phong Nha, follow the link below.
This is a story about a girl who was born missing two of her front teeth and the journey it took to correct this defect. It is also a story about cave formations in Phong Nha, Vietnam; a manmade island called Forest City located along the Strait of Malacca; and...
November 19th at 6pm EST
Montez Press Radio presents Policy: A Performance Essay, by Zahra Patterson with sound design by Melissa Pracht
See more info on their schedule:
https://radio.montezpress.com/#/schedule/1707
Tomorrow at 1pm Eastern, catch the 14th installment of The Brooklyn Rail's Radical Poetry Reading, this week curated by Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, featuring political poetry read by xtian w, Sasha Banks, David Lindsay, and Basie Allen.
#176 | Poet Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves curates the 14th installment in a weekly series of Radical Poetry Reading, featuring xtian w, Sasha Banks, David Lindsay, and Basie Allen.
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Rest in Power to beloved teacher, mentor, editor, friend, collaborator and brilliant poet Lewis Warsh. Posted is his poem "For Days" first published in Big Sky #9. We'll be sharing remembrances of him throughout the week. Rest easy dear poet.
November 19, 5:30pm EST
Aditi Machado, author of The End, is reading virtually via Brown University Literary Arts events.
All Fall 2020 Writers On Writing events will take place on Zoom for students enrolled in the course Writers On Writing. Events will be available for online viewing by the general public on this page, typically by the Monday following the event.
TOMORROW:
On Tuesday, November 17th at 12 pm EST, Montez Press Radio is hosting UDP authors from our 2020 Pamphlet Series — Mirene Arsanios, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, Dimitra Ioannou, Claudia La Rocco, and Aditi Machado.
Tune in! https://radio.montezpress.com/#/schedule/
We're very sad to hear that Lewis Warsh passed away this Sunday. Lewis was a writer of brilliantly subtle and incisive poetry and fiction, a beloved teacher and mentor, and a kind friend to so many of us. His generosity, insight, humor, camaraderie, and dedication will be sorely missed. We send our love and condolences to Lewis's family and friends.
Lewis's work as the publisher of Angel Hair (with Anne Waldman) and United Artists (with Bernadette Mayer, in its early days) has always been a great source of inspiration for us, and we're forever grateful for his support of UDP over many years.
We've had the good fortune of publishing Lewis on several occasions. First, in the 6th issue of our periodical 6x6, then with the 2006 chapbook Flight Test, and the 2015 full-length Alien Abduction.
You can read the full text of Flight Test on our website here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/flight-test/
Join us tonight for a virtual reading with Reina María Rodríguez, author of The Winter Garden Photograph (UDP, 2019), along with Kristin Dykstra and Urayoán Noel; hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Register at the link below!
more info about The Winter Garden Photograph here: uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/the-winter-garden-photograph
On November 17th at 12pm EST, Montez Press Radio is hosting a presentation and conversation featuring authors from our 2020 Pamphlet Series: Dimitra Ioannou, Mirene Arsanios, Aditi Machado, Claudia La Rocco and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves.
Tune in!
Reina María Rodríguez, author of The Winter Garden Photograph (UDP, 2019), reads this Monday, Nov 16th at 7pm, with translators Kristin Dykstra and poet Urayoán Noel, hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library.
Register at the link below!
Jena Osman (UDP) and Alli Warren will be doing a virtual reading of their respective books Motion Studies and Little Hill at The Poetry Project. To register for the event, follow the link below. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jena-osman-alli-warren-tickets-98712871857
Today is the last day of our special Prigov Birthday Bundle sale—get 50% off Soviet Texts and Golem Soveticus: Prigov as Brecht and Warhol in One Persona. To purchase this bundle, follow the link below.
In celebration of what would have been Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov's 80th birthday (November 5, 2020), we are offering a special discount on this two-book bundle which contains Soviet Texts—the first selected works of Prigov to appear in English translation—as well as Aleksandr Skidan's critical...
We're offering a special deal on the Prigov Bundle until November 13—get 50% off Soviet Texts and Golem Soveticus: Prigov as Brecht and Warhol in One Persona. To purchase this bundle, follow the link below.
In celebration of what would have been Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov's 80th birthday (November 5, 2020), we are offering a special discount on this two-book bundle which contains Soviet Texts—the first selected works of Prigov to appear in English translation—as well as Aleksandr Skidan's critical...
Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room will be hosting a poetry reading on November 18th at 7 pm featuring M. NourbeSe Philip and Cecilia Vicuña (Spit Temple, UDP). This event is hosted as part of the Woodberry Poetry Room's Vocarium Series. To register, follow the link below.
We have resumed some on-campus services, including book pickup, virtual consultations, and fulfilling scanning/digitization requests. Many library materials are available online, but our buildings remain closed until further notice.
Anna Vitale (Our Rimbaud Mask, UDP) and David Brazil will be presenting a virtual reading this Friday, November 13th at 9 PM EST. To register for this event, follow the link below.
Fill out this form and we will send you the link to join the event on Friday!
Coming up in a few days!
On Friday, Nov. 13th, The Harriman Institute at Columbia University presents Prigov at 80, a panel discussion on the legacy of writer and artist Dmitri Prigov (1940-2007). This event will be held as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live.
"Cutts’s examples remind us that, in all senses of the word, the postcard is the most apposite of missives. It is a robust and adaptable format whose far-reaching effects belie its minimal means of production."
— Rain Taxi Review's review of Simon Cutts's pamphlet, The World Has Been Empty Since the Postcard.
Find the pamphlet here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/the-world-has-been-empty-since-the-postcard-fourteen-polemical-postcards/
The World Has Been Empty Since the Postcard Fourteen Polemical Postcards Simon Cutts Ugly Duckling Presse ($12) by Ross Hair The World Has Been Empty Since the Postcard showcases fourteen “polemical” postcards, with accompanying commentary, by the British poet, artist, editor, and publisher Simo...
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Our Summer 2020 "Full Presse" subscription package includes this broadside of a page from Lev Rubinstein's (Лев Рубинштейн) "Thirty-five New Pages" (translated by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky). For more information on Rubinstein's Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties, which contains the full text of this piece, see here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/compleat-catalogue-of-comedic-novelties/ To subscribe in time to receive the next package, see our subscription options here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/subscribe/ (Film Credit: Linda Trimbath)
My Ida by Simone Kearney A sequence of meditations on the strange and relentless nature of our longing for completion, an elegy to our incompletion. Read it here: https://cdn.flipsnack.com/widget/v2/widget.html?hash=f7tkyp9h6
"The Barf is an upheaval... reflective, each delivery calls forth a framing... Its logic is associative, it proceeds by chords rather than single, discrete notes." Dodie Bellamy's BARF MANIFESTO is available to read online here: https://cdn.flipsnack.com/widget/v2/widget.html?hash=ftp301zo8 If you're seeking the simulation of turning a page of an out of print book, you can find it on the Online Chapbook Archive—sound effect included.
Today is the last day of our Women in Translation Month Sale! Use the code WIT to activate the discount of 25% off for all books and chapbooks in translation written or translated by women. https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/
UDP is running a Women in Translation Month Sale! Use the code WIT to get 25% off on our already discounted direct prices for all books and chapbooks in translation written or translated by women. The highlighted books for today are: Liliana Ponce's Diary Marina Tsvetaeva's Letter to the Amazon Vasilisk Gnedov's Alphabet for the Entrants https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/
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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.
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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