Homepage
Open in app
Sign in
Get started
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
From The Vaults
Backlist Bulletin
Author Interviews
Photo Archive
Studio
Website
Follow
Backlist Bulletin #12: Spiral Staircase by Hirato Renkichi, tr. Sho Sugita
Backlist Bulletin #12: Spiral Staircase by Hirato Renkichi, tr. Sho Sugita
In grade school, I was frequently reprimanded for doodling during class instead of taking notes and paying attention. Though those doodles…
uglyducklingpresse
Dec 14, 2021
Backlist Bulletin #11: Made-up Interview with Imaginary Artists
Backlist Bulletin #11: Made-up Interview with Imaginary Artists
There was a period of my life in which I talked often to mormon furries.
uglyducklingpresse
Oct 25, 2021
Reading & Roundtable on Translation is a Mode=Translation is An Anti-Neocolonial Mode
Reading & Roundtable on Translation is a Mode=Translation is An Ant...
On Monday, April 12th, 2021, UDP hosted a conversation between writers/translators Mirene Arsanios, Sawako Nakayasu, and Mónica de la Torre…
uglyducklingpresse
Aug 12, 2021
Backlist Bulletin #10: Lowly by Alan Felsenthal
Backlist Bulletin #10: Lowly by Alan Felsenthal
I’ve been writing my dreams down a lot lately. They are often banal, so much so that I easily confuse them with old memories. The act of…
uglyducklingpresse
May 25, 2021
James Copeland on Marina Temkina’s What Do You Want?: “Dear Marina,”
James Copeland on Marina Temkina’s What Do You Want?: “Dear Marina,”
Ugly Duckling Presse is inviting artists and writers to respond to their favorite titles for our backlist blog series From the Vaults. Our…
uglyducklingpresse
Mar 16, 2021
Backlist Bulletin #9: Hair by Amy Narneeloop
Backlist Bulletin #9: Hair by Amy Narneeloop
Diving into Amy Narneeloop’s Hair was a burrowing of my body into the page. The chapbook, a collection of poems entitled “Breasts,”…
uglyducklingpresse
Mar 11, 2021
An Update on UDP and SPD
An Update on UDP and SPD
Monday, March 8, 2021
uglyducklingpresse
Mar 8, 2021
Susana Thénon’s Ova Completa: Book Launch
Susana Thénon’s Ova Completa: Book Launch
On December 17, 2020, UDP hosted the launch event for Ova Completa by Argentine poet Susana Thénon (1935–1991). Poets Asiya Wadud and…
uglyducklingpresse
Mar 1, 2021
Backlist Bulletin #8: Dog Ear by Erica Baum
Backlist Bulletin #8: Dog Ear by Erica Baum
I hate dog ear-ing books…
uglyducklingpresse
Jan 28, 2021
Printing “The Supposed Huntsman”
Printing “The Supposed Huntsman”
This post is a detailed account of printing the foreground elements of the cover for Katie Fowley’s first full-length poetry collection…
uglyducklingpresse
Jan 20, 2021
Handsetting Type Workshop November 2020
Handsetting Type Workshop November 2020
uglyducklingpresse
Jan 11, 2021
Subscription Mailing November 2020
Subscription Mailing November 2020
On November 14th, a crisp Saturday afternoon, volunteers helped us pack up the new Full Presse Subscription package, which …
uglyducklingpresse
Nov 30, 2020
Apprentice Profile: Paige Parsons
Apprentice Profile: Paige Parsons
UDP’s apprenticeship program gives a yearly cohort of three to four early-career artists and literary professionals the skills to launch…
uglyducklingpresse
Nov 5, 2020
UDP’s 2020 Pamphlet Series: 20 Essays for 2020
UDP’s 2020 Pamphlet Series: 20 Essays for 2020
We think of the pamphlet form as having, to use Lyn Hejinian’s words, “a sense of a newsgram, a sense of immediacy …
uglyducklingpresse
Aug 2, 2020
Racial Justice Resources
Racial Justice Resources
We know there are a ton of resources being circulated right now in relation to the fight for racial justice in the US. It’s easy to feel…
uglyducklingpresse
Jun 17, 2020
Posters at UDP + printing services!
Posters at UDP + printing services!
Over the last week we’ve been keeping busy at UDP by printing posters for the current wave of protests in NYC (and across the country) in…
uglyducklingpresse
Jun 9, 2020
UDP Pledges 50% of Sales to Local Brooklyn Initiative
UDP Pledges 50% of Sales to Local Brooklyn Initiative
From June 8 to 23, UDP will be donating 50% of all publication sales to Equality for Flatbush and the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification…
uglyducklingpresse
Jun 9, 2020
CARL SCHLACHTE ON CORINA COPP’S PRO MAGENTA/BE MET
CARL SCHLACHTE ON CORINA COPP’S PRO MAGENTA/BE MET
Ugly Duckling Presse is inviting artists and writers to respond to their favorite titles for our backlist blog series From the Vaults. Our…
uglyducklingpresse
May 21, 2020
JOSHUA KOTIN ON GENYA TUROVSKAYA’S CALENDAR
JOSHUA KOTIN ON GENYA TUROVSKAYA’S CALENDAR
Ugly Duckling Presse is inviting artists and writers to respond to their favorite titles for our backlist blog series From the Vaults. Our…
uglyducklingpresse
May 8, 2020
Upcoming UDP Programming in Time of Crisis
Upcoming UDP Programming in Time of Crisis
UDP seminars to register for, virtual readings to attend, and digital books to read…
uglyducklingpresse
May 6, 2020
Supporting Independent Bookstores and Publishers
Supporting Independent Bookstores and Publishers
While the intensification of power looms from conglomerates that are congealing, monopolizing, and capitalizing on this crisis, the doors…
uglyducklingpresse
Apr 29, 2020
THE POEM DROWNS ME AND I RESURFACE WITH A TRANSLATION: Sebastian Mazza in Conversation with…
THE POEM DROWNS ME AND I RESURFACE WITH A TRANSLATION: Sebastian Ma...
UDP intern Sebastian Mazza interviewed poet and translator Johannes Göransson in early 2018 on the occasion of the release of his…
uglyducklingpresse
Apr 28, 2020
EPHEMERALISM, SEQUENTIALITY, AND WRITING BY HAND: Emma Clayton in Conversation with Constance…
EPHEMERALISM, SEQUENTIALITY, AND WRITING BY HAND: Emma Clayton in C...
2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the initial publication of Constance DeJong’s long out-of- print novel, Modern Love. Critically…
uglyducklingpresse
Apr 25, 2020
AN INTERVIEW FROM THE ARCHIVES, ON 6X6
AN INTERVIEW FROM THE ARCHIVES, ON 6X6
In 2003 the editors of 6x6 sent the following text to Guy Bennett & Beatrice Mousli in answer to their survey for an in article on little…
uglyducklingpresse
Apr 25, 2020
September 2017: 17 years of 6x6
September 2017: 17 years of 6x6
#1. Edmund Berrigan, Filip Marinovich, Sheila E. Murphy, Julien Poirier, Lev Rubinstein (tr. Matvei Yankelevich), Kathrine Sowerby #2…
uglyducklingpresse
Apr 25, 2020
About UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
Latest Stories
Archive
About Medium
Terms
Privacy
Teams
