Tatsumi Hijikata’s COSTUME EN FACE “takes on a kinetic life of its own, about as close to dancing as words on a page can get.” —Siobhan Burke These notebook notations from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social are translated by Sawako Nakayasu! #TranslationMonth uglyducklingpresse.org/publications...

”Börjel’s brilliance here is to extend this sense of personal tragedy to the collective and, most importantly, back again.” My review of Ida Börjel’s MA @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social for Tripwire22

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

coming soon.... :)

Es Lv, footprints / @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/es-l...

Today's Featured Poem: "[may rain]" by Masaoka Shiki & translated from Japanese by Abby Ryder-Huth from The Glass Clouding published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/may-rai...

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

Find us this Saturday at our favorite book fair ☁🌀 1 PM–9 PM, 316 Ten Eyck St @bombmag.bsky.social

Today’s Featured Poem: “Pillow” by Salette Tavares, translated from the Portuguese by Isabel Sobral Campos & Kristofer Petersen-Overton from LEX ICON published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/pillow/

Just a couple days left in our summer sale...

In MY LOVE IS WATER, Rob Macaisa Colgate “writes in rigorous and experimental verse to upend our understandings of desire, race, disability, and care.” Read a poetry collection from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social this #DisabilityPrideMonth! uglyducklingpresse.org/publications...

Our annual summer sale is here—say goodbye to July with a 30% discount on books (to buy). 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...

Here's your extremely useful and easy to follow guide to summer reading. 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/

FEAST OF THE ASS by Jahan Khajavi draws “extensively on Iranian poetic traditions and the history of their reception in English translation.” Read a poetry collection from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social‬ for #PrideMonth: uglyducklingpresse.org/publications...

They return at night with the same maxim: I spoke with the myths, but the myths wouldn’t have me. ▣ From bruno darío’s LANTANA OR, THE INDISSOLUBLE EXHALATION, translated by @Kit Schluter ▣ Out this month from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social ! circumferencemag.com/lantana/

If you're in Berlin, find us at Miss Read this weekend! We'll be tabling, and editor Rebekah Smith will be presenting on Mirtha Dermisache and UDP's 2024 title The Month of the Flies, by Dermisache and Sergio Chejfec. missread.com/event/reread...

“Phantom Limbs” by Lee Min-ha (tr. Jein Han, @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social ) “reckons with the experience of living in a body” in language “sometimes elliptical and sometimes direct.” shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/pha...

Thanks @thefrontlist.org and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for covering Trump's "coup at the NEA." “We know it’s not a lot for some organizations, but it’s huge for us. $25,000 is one person’s part-time salary, or the production costs for half of our books... we don’t have any reserves.”

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...

Among the many organizations who saw their NEA grant cancelled were @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social - help them make up the $25k shortfall by donating here uglyducklingpresse.org/support/

Today's Featured Poem: "Chapel Hill" by Mikael Johani, from Mongrel Kampung, published by Ugly Duckling Presse (@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/chapel-...

Spring events! Get tickets for our studio party here: shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/udp...

We're hiring a part-time staff member responsible for Operations & Development. 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.

Today’s Featured Poem: “An Organ That Vibrates for You” by Jahan Khajavi, from Feast of the Ass, published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/an-orga...

On Kendra Sullivan’s Reps / @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-k...

@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social is raising funds through the sale of "everything could be", a chapbook composed of lines donated by 155 UDP authors and friends. Buy a copy here. All funds will support a new season of books, fair pay for staff, and rent. shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/eve...

Read poet/translator Noa Mendoza’s review of The Month of the Flies in the latest Poetry Project Newsletter www.poetryproject.org/publications...

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...

Ugly Duckling Press is publishing Ronald Schernikau’s SMALLTOWNNOVELLA in my translation this fall - can’t wait 👇🏼

Today's Featured Poem: [this is not a travel book because travel is not a book of travel] by Haroldo de Campos, tr. by Odile Cisneros, from galáxias, published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/this-is...

A new title (for us) in production for Ugly Duckling Presse, with terrific artwork: Hannibal Barca by Adhemar Ahmad. A 7-1/4 x 6 paperback with 32 color pages--artwork shown is an interior page. Learn more at uglyducklingpresse.org/publications... @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social

This Saturday at the UDP studio: Mutual Aid 4 Gaza Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/night-for-...

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.

There’s something so humble and human about this P.S. from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social It quieted the noise for a minute. Their spring books look 🔥 too. Buy good books from good people. uglyducklingpresse.org

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. 🎷

UDP authors and translators featured in Tripwire 21: 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...

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 🔥

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