Ugly Duckling Presse
@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social
nonprofit publisher of experimental poetry, translation, performance, and the absurd // keeping poetry ugly for over 20 years
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Everything we'll publish in 2026.
Subscribe to UDP at the Full Presse, Supporting, or Translation tiers and receive hand-packed boxes of all year long.
uglyducklingpresse.org/subscribe/
Subscribe to UDP at the Full Presse, Supporting, or Translation tiers and receive hand-packed boxes of all year long.
uglyducklingpresse.org/subscribe/
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Everything we'll publish in 2026.
Subscribe to UDP at the Full Presse, Supporting, or Translation tiers and receive hand-packed boxes of all year long.
uglyducklingpresse.org/subscribe/
Subscribe to UDP at the Full Presse, Supporting, or Translation tiers and receive hand-packed boxes of all year long.
uglyducklingpresse.org/subscribe/
This November, we're honored to publish a previously-untranslated novella, debut poetry collections, a poetic inquiry into Black movement, two new chapbooks in our Señal series, and more. Preorder them now: uglyducklingpresse.org/books/
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This November, we're honored to publish a previously-untranslated novella, debut poetry collections, a poetic inquiry into Black movement, two new chapbooks in our Señal series, and more. Preorder them now: uglyducklingpresse.org/books/
UDP has a new website! Thank you so much to @partnerandpartners for the most thoughtful, analog-feeling redesign. Our old site was over 11 years old, and this new iteration is accessible, beautiful, and true to our letterpress tendencies.
September 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
UDP has a new website! Thank you so much to @partnerandpartners for the most thoughtful, analog-feeling redesign. Our old site was over 11 years old, and this new iteration is accessible, beautiful, and true to our letterpress tendencies.
Getting reading for Printed Matter’s NYABF next week! Find us at booth T53 🪁
@printedmatter.bsky.social
@printedmatter.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Getting reading for Printed Matter’s NYABF next week! Find us at booth T53 🪁
@printedmatter.bsky.social
@printedmatter.bsky.social
Black Box Named Like to Me by Diana Garza Islas will be the topic of the September's Lit & Luz Book Club.
Her work will also be featured in the upcoming Lit & Luz festival on November 14th.
Book Club sign-up: www.litluz.org/bookclub
Festival: www.litluz.org
Her work will also be featured in the upcoming Lit & Luz festival on November 14th.
Book Club sign-up: www.litluz.org/bookclub
Festival: www.litluz.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Black Box Named Like to Me by Diana Garza Islas will be the topic of the September's Lit & Luz Book Club.
Her work will also be featured in the upcoming Lit & Luz festival on November 14th.
Book Club sign-up: www.litluz.org/bookclub
Festival: www.litluz.org
Her work will also be featured in the upcoming Lit & Luz festival on November 14th.
Book Club sign-up: www.litluz.org/bookclub
Festival: www.litluz.org
August 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Our annual summer sale is here—say goodbye to July with a 30% discount on books (to buy).
Use code SUMMER2530 at checkout 🏵
Use code SUMMER2530 at checkout 🏵
July 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Our annual summer sale is here—say goodbye to July with a 30% discount on books (to buy).
Use code SUMMER2530 at checkout 🏵
Use code SUMMER2530 at checkout 🏵
Applications for the 2025–26 Apprenticeship Program will be open from August 1–10, 2025.
Learn more: uglyducklingpresse.org/about/opport...
Learn more: uglyducklingpresse.org/about/opport...
July 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Applications for the 2025–26 Apprenticeship Program will be open from August 1–10, 2025.
Learn more: uglyducklingpresse.org/about/opport...
Learn more: uglyducklingpresse.org/about/opport...
Here's your extremely useful and easy to follow guide to summer reading.
Link in bio ... :)
Link in bio ... :)
July 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Here's your extremely useful and easy to follow guide to summer reading.
Link in bio ... :)
Link in bio ... :)
We have a newsletter coming tomorrow with info about our apprenticeship program, a summer sale, and beautiful reviews of our spring season.
Sign up here: uglyducklingpresse.org/mailing-list/
Sign up here: uglyducklingpresse.org/mailing-list/
July 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We have a newsletter coming tomorrow with info about our apprenticeship program, a summer sale, and beautiful reviews of our spring season.
Sign up here: uglyducklingpresse.org/mailing-list/
Sign up here: uglyducklingpresse.org/mailing-list/
Join us on Wednesday, June 4 at Francis Kite Club! Free event, cash bar, and you can buy a discounted copy of the fundraising edition to pick up at the party ☁
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May 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Join us on Wednesday, June 4 at Francis Kite Club! Free event, cash bar, and you can buy a discounted copy of the fundraising edition to pick up at the party ☁
shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/eve...
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April 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We're hiring a part-time staff member responsible for Operations & Development.
To learn more about this position, visit the link in our bio 📮
To learn more about this position, visit the link in our bio 📮
April 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We're hiring a part-time staff member responsible for Operations & Development.
To learn more about this position, visit the link in our bio 📮
To learn more about this position, visit the link in our bio 📮
We're not at AWP, but we'll be at @2220arts.bsky.social on Friday at 9:30pm for an offsite reading 💙 Featuring Alex Cuff, Iris Cushing, Tonya Foster, Jen/Eleana Hofer, Kess Mohammadi, Sawako Nakayasu, and Kendra Sullivan.
March 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We're not at AWP, but we'll be at @2220arts.bsky.social on Friday at 9:30pm for an offsite reading 💙 Featuring Alex Cuff, Iris Cushing, Tonya Foster, Jen/Eleana Hofer, Kess Mohammadi, Sawako Nakayasu, and Kendra Sullivan.
We’re fundraising during the month of March! Help keep us on tall ladders for another year ❤️
More information here: shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/eve...
More information here: shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/eve...
February 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We’re fundraising during the month of March! Help keep us on tall ladders for another year ❤️
More information here: shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/eve...
More information here: shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/eve...
February 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Next Wednesday! Join us on February 19, 7pm at Poets House for a bilingual reading celebrating The Month of the Flies by Sergio Chejfec and Mirtha Dermisache, translated by Silvina López Medin and Rebekah Smith.
February 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Next Wednesday! Join us on February 19, 7pm at Poets House for a bilingual reading celebrating The Month of the Flies by Sergio Chejfec and Mirtha Dermisache, translated by Silvina López Medin and Rebekah Smith.
Introducing UDP’s spring 2025 book covers 💌
February 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Introducing UDP’s spring 2025 book covers 💌
“Every scholar & lover of new jazz and spontaneous poetry should know this book by heart. It is a gem of its Time.”
—Anne Waldman
You can order now the second edition of The Final Nite. And save the date for a launch event on Thursday, March 6 at Francis Kite Club. 🎷
January 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“Every scholar & lover of new jazz and spontaneous poetry should know this book by heart. It is a gem of its Time.”
—Anne Waldman
You can order now the second edition of The Final Nite. And save the date for a launch event on Thursday, March 6 at Francis Kite Club. 🎷
UDP authors and translators featured in Tripwire 21:
Maged Zaher
Saretta Morgan
Ida Börjel
Jake Syersak
Mohammed Kahïr-Eddine
Susana Thénon
Rebekah Smith
Maged Zaher
Saretta Morgan
Ida Börjel
Jake Syersak
Mohammed Kahïr-Eddine
Susana Thénon
Rebekah Smith
January 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
UDP authors and translators featured in Tripwire 21:
Maged Zaher
Saretta Morgan
Ida Börjel
Jake Syersak
Mohammed Kahïr-Eddine
Susana Thénon
Rebekah Smith
Maged Zaher
Saretta Morgan
Ida Börjel
Jake Syersak
Mohammed Kahïr-Eddine
Susana Thénon
Rebekah Smith
Black Box Named Like to Me by Diana Garza Islas (translated by Cal Paule) reviewed in Poetry Northwest: www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favori...
January 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Black Box Named Like to Me by Diana Garza Islas (translated by Cal Paule) reviewed in Poetry Northwest: www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favori...
We don’t believe in capitalism but we do make and sell books. New, recent, backlist—take 25% off all UDP titles from December 3–8. Use the code DECEMBERFLASH 🪡⚡️📚🔥
December 3, 2024 at 8:11 PM
We don’t believe in capitalism but we do make and sell books. New, recent, backlist—take 25% off all UDP titles from December 3–8. Use the code DECEMBERFLASH 🪡⚡️📚🔥
This Wednesday at P.I.T. (Property Is Theft) in Los Sures, Williamsburg, NYC! Celebrate the launch of two new UDP books by authors Natasha Tiniacos and Diana Garza Islas + translators Rebeca Alderete Baca and Cal Paule. Come for readings in both English and Spanish, and music by Brandon Lopez 🔥
December 2, 2024 at 6:12 PM
This Wednesday at P.I.T. (Property Is Theft) in Los Sures, Williamsburg, NYC! Celebrate the launch of two new UDP books by authors Natasha Tiniacos and Diana Garza Islas + translators Rebeca Alderete Baca and Cal Paule. Come for readings in both English and Spanish, and music by Brandon Lopez 🔥
A 2025 UDP subscription means a full year of poetry, experimental literature, and writing in translation by these 25 brilliant authors and translators 🔥
Until December 15th, use code BOOKLOVE at checkout for an extra 25% off. shorturl.at/Lm0Nq
Until December 15th, use code BOOKLOVE at checkout for an extra 25% off. shorturl.at/Lm0Nq
November 21, 2024 at 7:42 PM
A 2025 UDP subscription means a full year of poetry, experimental literature, and writing in translation by these 25 brilliant authors and translators 🔥
Until December 15th, use code BOOKLOVE at checkout for an extra 25% off. shorturl.at/Lm0Nq
Until December 15th, use code BOOKLOVE at checkout for an extra 25% off. shorturl.at/Lm0Nq