Ugly Duckling Presse

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

We’re at Flyleaf Book & Zine Festival in Neukölln, Berlin this weekend, we’d love to see you here!with and many m...
09/19/2025

We’re at Flyleaf Book & Zine Festival in Neukölln, Berlin this weekend, we’d love to see you here!

with and many more

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Come and join us under the blue skies of Paris this weekend .fr !
09/05/2025

Come and join us under the blue skies of Paris this weekend .fr !

We’re at this weekend, table D27, cozied up with friends , come say hi! We’ll give you a poem 🤩
06/13/2025

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

We’ll give you a poem 🤩

This weekend in Berlin! UDP will be at with new spring books. And don’t miss “Rereading Mirtha Dermisache” with and Re...
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.

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

Happy pub day to our June books! Can’t wait to get these in your hands.
06/01/2025

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

Last week’s visit from — we talked about independent publishing, nonprofit structures, and sewed copies of Don’t Hide t...
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.

** Second Edition ** Palm-Lined with Potience is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allen’s debut collection of ...
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.

Order now from our site or from **
And see you at the launch on May 30 **

Happy pub date to our May books and happy International Workers’ Day!
05/01/2025

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

We’ve got spring books, misprints, and too many boxes 🪽🌷
04/21/2025

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

** Forthcoming May 1 ** The Hand of the Hand brings us to a future in which earth, animal, and human intertwine—where st...
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.

Preorder at the link in bio or from 💙

Join us on March 6 at 7pm for a celebration of the second edition of The Final Nite & Other Poems, Complete Notes from ...
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).

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