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nonprofit publisher of experimental poetry, translation, performance, etc. Find us on https://t.co/lmkxkgUiGV at @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social

Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2009
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@alvinlu
Alvin Lu
16 days
Interesting article in @PublishersWkly on publishing collectives, featuring Joanna Ruocco of @fctwo — as well as @UlyssesPress @ThinkNiche @uglyducklingprs City Works Press @AKPressDistro. Link 👇
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@DavidNaimon
(((David Naimon)))
2 months
Don't miss today's episode with Rob Macaisa Colgate about his 2 debuts in poetry & verse drama. We explore questions of care, disability, accessibility & community, looking at the poem's body & at the world-at-large through a Crip Mad Poetics Audio: https://t.co/b8yy7WPPf5 #thsw
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@CLMPorg
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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 @uglyducklingprs this #DisabilityPrideMonth! https://t.co/5tgXOgAiYI
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@uglyducklingprs
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
2 months
Here's your extremely useful and easy to follow guide to summer reading. Link in bio ... :) (Also follow our bluesky)
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@uglyducklingprs
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
2 months
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: https://t.co/zEQEZOcyaK
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@daybreakjung
Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽
3 months
This is a book of rare beauty, born from an unflinching investigation into the nightmares that emerge when the self is shattered by the banal abuses of our world. An incredible bilingual edition of Lee Min-ha’s Phantom Limbs, beautifully translated by Jein Han.
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@CLMPorg
CLMP
3 months
Rob Macaisa Colgate’s MY LOVE IS WATER (@uglyducklingprs) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth: In this hybrid collection of drama and poetry, the narrator “traverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog.” https://t.co/5tgXOgAiYI
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@dedreytnien
"kit" "schluter"
3 months
Thanks to Emerson Goo & @BOMBmagazine for this nice review of bruno darío's "Lantana, or the indissoluble exhalation" (@uglyducklingprs) in their Summer 2025 issue: https://t.co/Xowzk2NmAb
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@BOMBmagazine
BOMB Magazine
2 months
“Language breaks down into rhythm, and meaning recirculates throughout the universe… darío remains with us, surely, in these cycles and patterns of life.” —Emerson Goo Writer Emerson Goo reviewed the late poet bruno darío’s LANTANA (@uglyducklingprs) https://t.co/SOnSBPMxhZ
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bombmagazine.org
This posthumously published book about what it means to love after death showcases the playful, intoxicating language of the “singular and inestimable”…
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@mekitron
meki
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🟨🟨MONGREL KAMPUNG🟧🟧 is published by my fave publisher in the whole wide world, Ugly Duckling Presse @uglyducklingprs in Brooklyn, New York —collectively-run, fine purveyor of experimental poetry — keeping poetry ugly for over 20 years! https://t.co/sAu5o29g3u
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@asymptotejrnl
Asymptote Journal
2 months
The Lantana trilogy, recounts the doomed, fatal, gorgeous love story between one speaker, “the Inconsolable,” and his beloved, the terrific and terrifying Anfitriona. Rarely has language felt so palpable: https://t.co/MfTtN8fVAl
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@uglyducklingprs
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
6 months
We’re fundraising during the month of March! Help keep us on tall ladders for another year ❤️ https://t.co/CbNTbQ2OYo
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@openpoetrybooks
Open Books: A Poem Emporium
9 months
“impossible is everything.” -Mikael Johani, Mongrel Kampung (@uglyducklingprs) https://t.co/F1Qr5ljqJx
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@openpoetrybooks
Open Books: A Poem Emporium
9 months
“In my uncomprehending, unlit unhouse.” -Diana Garza Islas, trans. by Cal Paule, Black Box Named Like to Me (@uglyducklingprs) https://t.co/01B9vbGZob
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@uglyducklingprs
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
10 months
This Friday, at 6pm EST, we’ll be participating in the Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon with a coalition of independent presses, poets, writers, and translators. Go to the link in our bio to watch. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
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@uglyducklingprs
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
10 months
Find us at… Blue Sky 🍉👋🏼
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@uglyducklingprs
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
10 months
Sign up for a full year of poetry, experimental literature, and writing in translation by these 25 brilliant authors and translators. ⚡️⚡️Subscribe now and save!⚡️⚡️ Until December 15th, use code BOOKLOVE at checkout for an extra 25% off 👉 https://t.co/xZAg0fg8Xn
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@HumanitiesGC
Center for the Humanities at GC CUNY
10 months
@CUNYPoetics fellow @natiniacos has a new chapbook out! Gather for the launch of "Against the Regime of the Fluent/ Contra el régimen de lo fluido"!
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@uglyducklingprs
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
10 months
Kendra Sullivan in conversation with Tanya Lukin Linklater for @BOMBmagazine https://t.co/OjeqIocnxZ
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bombmagazine.org
On creative practice, poetry, and motivating institutional change.
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@uglyducklingprs
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
10 months
New workshop! Saturday, December 7 at the UDP studio 🔥 https://t.co/Cl3l3BUJzQ
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