Ugly Duckling Presse

Head over to our new Medium blog  for updates from the presse! It’s a space for continued conversation about our books and for documenting what’s happening in our community—including phot...

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Catching the zeal for Dodie Bellamy’s The TV Sutras was slow at first, and then total. I grazed tentatively through the first half of the book, which is made up of 78 sutras, or aphorisms of r...

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BOOK LAUNCH: ANDREI MONASTYRSKI’S ELEMENTARY POETRY WITH BORIS GROYS, BRIAN DROITCOUR, AND YELENA KALINSKY, AT E-FLUX

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LISA ROBERTSON, RACHEL LEVITSKY, AND ANNA GURTON-WACHTER: AN EVENING OF POETRY READINGS PRESENTED BY COACH HOUSE BOOKS AND UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE, AT THE DANCE

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THE DRUG OF ART: IVAN BLATNÝ AT 100 – Czech Center New York hosted a celebration of the work of Ivan Blatný, one of the most prominent Czech poets of the 20th century. The evening, moder...

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NETS is not strictly an erasure, so much as an idea of an erasure. The title is taken from inside the letters “The Sonnets of William Shakespeare.” Each numbered piece in the book offers a S...

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Elizabeth Reddin’s The Hot Garment of Love is Insecure (UDP, 2008) and Steven Zultanski’s Bribery (UDP, 2014) are two UDP books, six years apart, with a number of similarities. Both are set i...

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“A boat with no one on it brought A startling, sharp joy: behold The searchlights’ Lustrous Fugitive Humanity” (p. 15) The task of staying alive is an obvious one we regularly m...

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Before you get to Sandra Liu’s poems, you encounter the propulsive force of her language in the dangling preposition of this chapbook’s title: On Poems On what? One would be hard-pressed to ...

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> The island—earth which is not, from which you cannot depart, that > you must love because you are condemned to it. A place from which > you see everything, from w...

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Use Your Hands (Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft, Philadelphia) One Way No Exit by G. C. Waldrep (Tarpaulin Sky, Grafton VT) Into the Forest Engine by Garth Graeper (Projective In...

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> “Ecological awareness is like knowing, but more like > letting-be-known. It is something like coexisting. It is like > becoming accustomed to something strange, yet it...

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One Way No Exit by G. C. Waldrep, Tarpaulin Sky Press - Grafton VT Spin and Spin by Cat Forsythe and Roslyn Dades (Alien Corn, AU), What I Don't Know For Sure by Phil Demise (Burning Deck, Pro...

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UDP apprentice Jamie Chiang interviewed writer and educator Zahra Patterson in February 2019 after the release of her UDP title Chronology, recent winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian ...

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Ugly Duckling Presse is inviting artists and writers to respond to their favorite titles for our new backlist blog series From the Vaults. Our sixth contributor is writer Claudia La Rocco, with a...

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On March 19, 2019, UDP’s year-long celebration of its first 25 years culminated in a benefit gala, honoring the work of Burning Deck Press and Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop. The night concluded wit...

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On March 19, 2019, UDP’s year-long celebration of its first 25 years culminated in a benefit gala, honoring the work of Burning Deck Press and Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop.  After a series of re...

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In 2018, Ugly Duckling Presse celebrated its first 25 years with performances, readings, and exhibitions all over the country and abroad, from Brown University and Woodland Pattern to Jogjakarta,...

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“Performance & Documentation” at the Queens Museum on February 17th. The program involved performances and a discussion panel involving INDEX vol. 7 performers and editors, presented in coll...

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Rochelle Feinstein and Didier William in conversation at the Block Gallery / Artist in the Marketplace, in celebration of the release of Pls. Reply, the selected writings of Rochelle Feinstein, ...

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