Taking inspiration from the music-infused spirit of spontaneity found within Steve Dalachinsky’s The Final Nite, join us for a night of open writing and listening at the UDP studio. uglyducklingpresse.org/event/open-s...

Applications open! UDP’s Apprenticeship Program provides a part-time (12 hours/week), fair-pay, work-learning opportunity to aspiring literary professionals interested in hands-on training in all aspects of running a small press. Find more info at uglyducklingpresse.org/about/opport...

In NETS, first published in 2004, Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare’s sonnets bare, showing that “the history of poetry is with us, pre-inscribed in the white of the page.” Help us reprint this classic title! Link in bio to donate.

Many of UDP’s beloved and best-selling titles are currently out of stock—and because of federal cuts, we haven’t been able to find the money in our budget to get them back into circulation. If you’re able, please consider donating to help reprint one or several of these titles. Link in bio!

On Sunday, January 18 from 7–9pm, we’re hosting an open studio for printing protest signs. We’ll have a few Provisional Presses set up, wood type available, and other supplies handy. Our Heidelberg will also be in use, printing a couple hundred signs to pass out at protests.

No one has ever been as thrilled by an annual report as we are with ours. Read it on our site as a pdf, or write us to get one in the mail. We did a lot in 2025, and this year we’re on track to publish and host and print even more. uglyducklingpresse.org/about/mission/ 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌 💌

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/

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.

Getting reading for Printed Matter’s NYABF next week! Find us at booth T53 🪁 @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

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

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/

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...

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.

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...

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.

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