Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse 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, Deerhead Records, and with various visual and performance artists, Ugly Duckling Presse also has supportsed and participated 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.

In January 2007, the Presse relocated its small workshop and letterpress studio to the Old American Can Factory, a restored warehouse building in Gowanus, Brooklyn, that is home to a community of artists, artisans, and creative enterprises.

http://uglyducklingpresse.org/