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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
"There will be a form we can soften into and which we’ll repeat—we will convene in ceremony."
Sign up for Aisha Sasha John's 5 session workshop: Poetry Is Prayer, one of The Poetry Project's many low cost workshops. Poetry Is Prayer will meet Saturdays from 2-4 PM, beginning October 17th!
Reina María Rodríguez's The Winter Garden Photograph (tr. Kristin Dykstra with Nancy Gates Madsen) and Alejandra Pizarnik's The Last Innocence / The Lost Adventures (tr. Cecilia Rossi) have been shortlisted for ALTA's 2020 National Translation Awards in Poetry!
https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/announcing-the-2020-shortlists-for-the-national-translation-awards-in-poetry-and-prose/
September 30, 2020—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2020 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose! 2020 marks the twen…
Zahra Patterson's Chronology is one of the books available as part of New Suns' inaugural book box!
New Suns is a new book subscription service with monthly subscription options, delivering diverse Black and LGBTQ+ literature.
TONIGHT 9:30 pm: "Remotely Personal Greetings" (w/ Unnameable Books)
UDP author Filip Marinovich is doing a virtual reading with Gabrielle Civil and Andrew Choate.
For details on how to join the event on Zoom, visit: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/events/remotely-personal-greetings-filip-marinovich-gabrielle-civil-andrew-choate/
Remotely Personal Greetings: Filip Marinovich, Gabrielle Civil, & Andrew Choate October 1, 2020, 9:30 pm at Unnameable Books
Greenlight Bookstore's virtual Brooklyn Indie Party is tomorrow night at 7:30pm EST! Co-hosted by CLMP and part of the Brooklyn Book Festival.
The virtual party will include readings by authors from these small presses, including our very own Zahra Patterson, author of Chronology (UDP, 2018).
Tickets are $5; purchase below!
Greenlight's annual salute to the independent publishers of Brooklyn; part of the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends series
Spring Broadside Reading III: Anaïs Duplan & Zahra Patterson
October 1, 2020, 6:30 pm
at The Center for Book Arts
The Broadside Reading Series features six writers from various backgrounds and writing disciplines, collaborating with the Center’s Artists-in-Residence to create a collection of limited edition letterpress-printed broadsides. The collaboration explores the relationship of text, image, and design, incorporating the artists’ visual conveyance of writers’ poetry and prose.
This is the last reading of a three-part series of online readings, which are curated and moderated by Asiya Wadud.
This evening’s reading will feature writers Anaïs Duplan & Zahra Patterson (Chronology).
Following the readings, the six broadside artists each will reveal their design and share a few words about their design process. The production of broadsides have been delayed due to the Center’s closure following the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The artists who designed the broadsides and will be presenting are Rachel Hillery, NIC Kay, Hongyi Jiang, Linda Zeb Hang, Devin Morris, Claudia Cortinez.
Register here:
Streaming for free, today through October 31st:
Culture Vulture: Steve Dalachinsky on Screen
It’s with great pleasure that – in collaboration with Yuko Otomo – Anthology Film Archives presents this filmic tribute to Steve Dalachinsky (The Final Nite, In Glorious Black and White), highlighting his all-too-rare but indelible appearances in film and video works by a wide range of filmmakers. Encompassing documentation of Steve’s own performances and readings, short works starring Steve, as well as his guest-appearances and cameos in fictional films and music videos, this series is intended to celebrate Steve’s life and spirit, and to thank him for his untiring dedication to the cinema and to the creative life of New York City and avant-garde culture everywhere.
An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film.
Greenlight Bookstore's annual Brooklyn Indie Party is going virtual this year, on Friday, October 2!
Part of the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends series and co-hosted by CLMP, the event will feature authors from A Public Space, Akashic Books, Archipelago Books, BOMB Magazine, Enchanted Lion Books, Ig Publishing, One Story, Radix Media, Restless Books, Turtle Point Press, and UDP—our very own Zahra Patterson, author of Chronology (2018) will read.
Tickets are $5, and all proceeds will be distributed evenly among these presses! For more info & to purchase tickets, see the link below.
Greenlight's annual salute to the independent publishers of Brooklyn; part of the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends series
"I don’t know what it would mean to be of the center and have an entitled positioning to the center. To the extent that I live and work from a position of decentering, I suppose it’s hybrid."
Read the full interview with Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (translator of Algaravias: Echo Chamber) by our former Apprentice Serena Solin, via Asymptote!
I’m okay with “hybridity” and “identity” in the sense that they are procedural, but not to the extent that they are arrivals and conclusions.
The Hurston/Wright Foundation will be hosting their 19th Annual Legacy Awards Ceremony for celebrating Black Literary Excellence on October 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM EDT. UDP author Asiya Wadud has been nominated for a legacy award in poetry for their book Syncope. For more information about the gala and to buy tickets, follow the link below.
https://www.hurstonwright.org/2020-legacy-award-nominees/
The Hurston/Wright Foundation will be hosting their 19th Annual Legacy Awards Ceremony for celebrating Black Literary Excellence on October 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM EDT. UDP author Asiya Wadud has been nominated for a legacy award in poetry for their book Syncope. For more information about the gala and to buy tickets, follow the link below.
https://www.hurstonwright.org/2020-legacy-award-nominees/
In October and November, UDP will be offering three online book arts classes, each hosted by artist and educator Willa Goettling:
Thursday, October 15: Simple Book Structures (one-day class) https://rb.gy/pmmenx - limited to 20 participants
Thursday, October 29: Softcover Long-stitch Binding (one-day class) https://rb.gy/sqfzez - limited to 20 participants
Sundays, November 8-22: The Book as Democratic Multiple (three sessions) https://rb.gy/f2su0e - limited to 12 participants
Sign up for a spot at the links above!
THE BOOK AS DEMOCRATIC MULTIPLE with Willa Goettling A three-week online seminar held over Zoom. 4pm to 6:30pmSundays: November 8, 15, and 22 In this online series, participants will learn about the history of the book as a political tool while practicing hands-on approaches to home publishing. The....
UDP author Aisha Sasha John will be teaching a 5 session virtual learning class with The Poetry Project starting Saturday, October 17th. The workshop, entitled "Poetry is Prayer," will discuss what is the thing you are doing when you are doing what you understand as “writing poetry." For more information on how to register, follow the link below.
https://poetryproject.z2systems.com/np/clients/poetryproject/eventRegistration.jsp?event=21&mc_cid=9d0dc59d1a&mc_eid=fdb50718f2
POETRY IS PRAYER — Workshop with Aisha Sasha John | 5-Sessions | October 17-November 14 | 2-4 PM
Greenlight Bookstore's annual Brooklyn Indie Party, part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, is going virtual this year!
Friday, October 2nd at 7:30pm EST, featuring: A Public Space, Akashic Books, Archipelago Books, BOMB Magazine, Enchanted Lion Books, Ig Publishing, One Story, Radix Media , Restless Books, Turtle Point Press, and UDP.
Co-hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
The virtual party will include readings by authors from these small presses, including our very own Zahra Patterson, author of Chronology (UDP, 2018).
Get your tickets below!
"If I’m using a book, I’m not telling you the book’s title because I don’t want the work to be weighed down by it. I want you to have a feeling for the source, but I want the work to be free to go somewhere else."
Interview with Erica Baum BOMB Magazine
Baum’s work unearths and explores the incidental poetry of UFO sightings, dog-eared paperbacks, and obsolete artifacts like card catalogs.
Ova Completa by Susana Thénon, tr. Rebekah Smith (UDP, 2020) is now available for pre-sale!
In her final, most radical collection, Thénon's poetics expand to incorporate all it touches—classical and popular culture, lyrics to songs and vulgarities, incoherence and musicality—embodying humor and terror while writing obliquely of femicide, Argentina’s last dictatorship, the Malvinas / Falklands war, the heritage of colonialism.
Action Books has featured three poems from Ova Completa as this month's "Poesía en acción," including an interview with translator Rebekah Smith. Experience Thénon's work there: https://actionbooks.org/2020/09/poesia-en-accion-excerpt-from-ova-completa-by-susana-thenon-and-translator-rebekah-smith/?fbclid=IwAR3amcWeLmh_SApldz9Hts7ItOjnRGK3PZ4rpQB-ZfiqrL_YAUpgHMZMSMw
Purchase your copy here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/ova-completa/
In celebration of the 43rd Annual ALTA Conference, SPD's featuring the diverse translated works of their small press publishers! All translated titles on sale at SPD are 25% off w/ code ALTA43. This year’s virtual ALTA conference will kick off on International Translation Day, September 30, 2020, for two and a half weeks of daily events, culminating in a weekend of all-day programming on October 17-18, 2020. #ATLA43
Checkout the conference line-up here: https://literarytranslators.org/conference/alta43-in-between
For more information on the sale, follow the link below: https://www.spdbooks.org/On-Sale.aspx
In celebration of the 43rd Annual ALTA Conference, SPD's featuring the diverse translated works of their small press publishers! All translated titles on sale at SPD are 25% off w/ code ALTA43. This year’s virtual ALTA conference will kick off on International Translation Day, September 30, 2020, for two and a half weeks of daily events, culminating in a weekend of all-day programming on October 17-18, 2020. #ATLA43
Checkout the conference line-up here: https://literarytranslators.org/conference/alta43-in-between
For more information on the sale, follow the link below: https://www.spdbooks.org/On-Sale.aspx
Tomorrow at 9 pm: Filip Marinovich and Jesse Hewit present a reading as ZAZA EIGHT. Register for the virtual event here: https://forms.gle/rUsyh5bawRaqZQbC8
"How do you respond when someone asks you for the hundredth time on Zoom what system you would propose to replace capitalism?"
Chia-Lun Chang will be teaching two workshops in collaboration with the Brooklyn Public Library as part of their University Open Air Series. The first session for each workshop will be on Wednesday, September 23rd. More details can be found below.
The first workshop, entitled Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry, will allow students to read original and translated work from Taiwanese poets. More info available here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/university-open-air-virtual-20200923-1
The second workshop, Poetry and A.I., lets students explore the connection between A.I. and art. More info available here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/university-open-air-virtual-20200923-3
What's A.I. art? We've heard that A.I. writes poetry, creates art and makes music. In this course, we will read news, theory and work from A.I. labors. Starting with mimicking the A.I., you will generate new work, future your research and interact with your robotic self.
The Home School will be offering the opportunity for distant learning with interdisciplinary poets and artists that include Hoa Nguyen (UDP) & Kristin Prevallet on the writing of Bob Kaufman, James Allister Sprang on listening, CAConrad on occult poetics, emmalea russo on the practice of stare & prayer in art, Kate Durbin on the eco poetic, Veronica Gonzalez Peña on POV, Cat Tyc on writing through uncertainty and e*team on time. As a bonus feature, The Home School will also be offering a free seminar with CA Conrad on (SOMA)tic Poetry Rituals on Nov. 15. For more information on how to register, follow the link here: http://www.thehomeschool.org/online-studies/registration
Two of our 2019 titles, Reina María Rodríguez's The Winter Garden Photograph (translated by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen), and Alejandra Pizarnik's The Last Innocence / The Lost Adventures (translated by Cecilia Rossi), are longlisted for ALTA's 2020 National Translation Awards in Poetry!
September 2, 2020—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is pleased to announce the longlists for the 2020 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose! 2020 marks the twenty…
Curious Elision: Reading Philip Whalen's Manuscripts at the Bancroft
Presented by David Brazil, noted poet, pastor, and translator
September 17, 2020 at noon
More info for how to register for this virtual event here https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcOyqrj0sHNYWFMuvllkYBmLoSziKh_-p.
Poet Philip Whalen wrote his book-length masterpiece Scenes of Life at the Capital during a residence in Kyoto from 1969 to 1971. Forty years later, Wave Books has published a new reader's edition of the poem, with an extended afterword by poet and scholar David Brazil. In this Roundtable talk, David will share insights into Whalen's poetry, as well as discoveries made in the course of examining Whalen's papers and notebooks held by The Bancroft Library.
You can order the book through Wave Books or support local, independent bookstores through Bookshop.org.
September 17, 2020 • Noon Curious Elision: Reading Philip Whalen's Manuscripts at the Bancroft Presented by David Brazil, noted poet, pastor, and translator Poet Philip Whalen wrote his book-length masterpiece Scenes of Life at the Capital during a residence in Kyoto from 1969 to 1971. Forty years...
Life in Space by Galina Rymbu, tr. Joan Brooks (UDP, 2020) is now available for pre-sale!
Life in Space is Galina Rymbu’s first full-length collection in English translation and includes poems selected from her three books as well as more recent work. Rymbu’s poems employ history as a discursive tool to understand the present—stories of revolution, movement in time and space, life, and livelihood emerge. Rymbu seeks a radical feminist and leftist poetics that does not condescend to the oppressed, but rather embraces the complexity of every emotion and political position, and of language itself. She opens her poetry to the violence of propaganda, biopolitical manipulation, ideological pressures, as well as the violence of personal intimacy.
Life in Space includes additional material translated by Helena Kernan, Charles Bernstein and Kevin M.F. Platt, and Anastasiya Osipova (with Marijeta Bozovic, Catherine Ciepiela, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Pavel Khazanov, Mila Nazyrova, Eugene Ostashevsky, Val Vinokur, and Michael Wachtel), and a preface by Eugene Ostashevsky.
This book is a co-production with After Hours Editions, who published Rymbu’s first English-language chapbook, White Bread.
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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.
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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