
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
@uglyducklingprs
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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
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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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
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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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Here's your extremely useful and easy to follow guide to summer reading. Link in bio ... :) (Also follow our bluesky)
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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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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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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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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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“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
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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🟨🟨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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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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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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“impossible is everything.” -Mikael Johani, Mongrel Kampung (@uglyducklingprs) https://t.co/F1Qr5ljqJx
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“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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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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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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@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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Kendra Sullivan in conversation with Tanya Lukin Linklater for @BOMBmagazine
https://t.co/OjeqIocnxZ
bombmagazine.org
On creative practice, poetry, and motivating institutional change.
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