Ugly Duckling Presse

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Ugly Duckling Presse [link]is a nonprofit art & publishing collective producing small to mid-size editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books. The Presse favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers with well-defined formal or conceptual projects that are difficult to place at other presses. Its full-length books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, magazine and newspaper all contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.

In collaboration with Loudmouth Collective and with various visual and performance artists, Ugly Duckling Presse also supports and participates in the creation of works off paper: these may be performed, or they may exist on digital video, CD, or tree bark. On or off the page, UDP endeavors to create spaces in which people can have an experience of art free of expectation, coercion, and utility.

The Presse maintains a small workshop and letterpress studio on the waterfront in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

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