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Ugly Duckling Presse nonprofit publisher of experimental poetry, translation, performance, and the absurd // keeping poetr

08/18/2026

LINES OF FLIGHT by Madhu Kaza is back in print! With new letterpress covers in red 💌

“Sublime, elegant, serious. To read Madhu Kara’s Lines of Flight is to step out onto a smoldering rope suspended between history and reality.” — Robin Coste Lewis Robin Coste Lewis

“In exquisite prose, Kaza turns translation against time…” — Mirene Arsanios Mirene Arsanios

“A line of flight upon which my heart takes a leap.” — Sawako Nakayasu

Join Rob Macaisa Colgate for a workshop on revising poems through a lens of accessibility, “understand[ing] poets as the...
07/22/2026

Join Rob Macaisa Colgate for a workshop on revising poems through a lens of accessibility, “understand[ing] poets as the care workers of our poems. We will center the poem as a body, which can therefore be disabled, and wonderfully so.”

Saturday, August 15 from 2–5pm EST on zoom—link in bio to register. Email us at office at uglyducklingpresse dot org to get discount codes for sliding scale (no explanation needed)!

In NETS, first published in 2004, Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare’s sonnets bare, showing that “the history of poetry is w...
07/21/2026

In NETS, first published in 2004, Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare’s sonnets bare, showing that “the history of poetry is with us, pre-inscribed in the white of the page.”

Help us reprint this classic title! Link in bio to donate. Donors over a certain level will receive a special edition print by Bervin.

Do you want to read aloud, to step into a group, to test the boundaries between text and performance? Come participate i...
07/20/2026

Do you want to read aloud, to step into a group, to test the boundaries between text and performance? Come participate in an intentionally tentative, entirely unspectated table read of Rob Macaisa Colgate’s verse drama My Love Is Water. Text provided.

Rob Macaisa Colgate will be zooming in at 8:30pm!

Email office at uglyducklingpresse dot com if you want to come.

“Urgent, intimate, and crushing.” —Rob Macaisa Colgate (Rob Macaisa Colgate “These poems interrogate what it means to ca...
07/20/2026

“Urgent, intimate, and crushing.”

—Rob Macaisa Colgate (Rob Macaisa Colgate

“These poems interrogate what it means to care for a body, and to carry a body.”
—Daniel Borzutsky

Hope to see you silent green Kulturquartier Miss Read this weekend!With special table visits from UDP authors:Saturday 2...
06/24/2026

Hope to see you silent green Kulturquartier Miss Read this weekend!

With special table visits from UDP authors:

Saturday 27 June 16–17:00: Gabrielle Civil guides us through Black Weirdo Bibliomancy

Sunday 28 June 16–17:00: Carlos Soto Román DJ’s the Archive: Sound, Politics, & Text

We’ll have all our hot new titles, AND plenty of hot old titles too — now is the time to build your UDP in Euro stash

We’ll be table buddies with our new friends .editions — come say hi!

And join us Saturday, 12–13:45 in the atelier for a workshop and conversation with Vero S. Luna and Carlos Soto Román

See you there! 😘

Happy pub day to our spring books! And happy May Day. Double Serpent, Sardine, .miriamreyes and .ce Caetano, Magic Epi...
05/01/2026

Happy pub day to our spring books! And happy May Day.

Double Serpent,

Sardine, .miriamreyes and .ce

Caetano,

Magic Episodes and Other Synchronicities: The Transhemispheric Correspondence of Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa, 1970–1989,

Sunworshippers,

The Dog’s Letter,

The Book of Advice,

Winter Night Rabbit Worries, and


Our next Open Studio event is tomorrow, and we’ll be printing protest signs for the May Day protests. Come by from 5–7pm...
04/29/2026

Our next Open Studio event is tomorrow, and we’ll be printing protest signs for the May Day protests. Come by from 5–7pm to use our proofing presses and wood type to print letterpress signs.

Email [email protected] if you’re interested!

And see you 2pm at Union Square, 4pm at Washington Square Park on Friday ❤️‍🔥

Twice a year, Ugly Duckling Presse throws a party to celebrate a new season of books and chapbooks. Join us on May 7 in ...
04/16/2026

Twice a year, Ugly Duckling Presse throws a party to celebrate a new season of books and chapbooks. Join us on May 7 in our Gowanus studio. Doors at 7:30, readings promptly at 7:45. Tickets at the link in bio or on our site.

Thanks to the evening’s sponsors, and (come early to get a slice of pie).

Very excited to host this event with and next month! Join us for bilingual poetry, performances, and a conversation ab...
03/26/2026

Very excited to host this event with and next month! Join us for bilingual poetry, performances, and a conversation about contemporary Korean poetry.

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