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.
For
list of UDP's FUNDERS, click
here.
UDP
is a volunteer-run organization. If you are
interested in volunteering or in interning for
school credit, please contact us.
We also welcome your tax-deductible donations of
any amount.
Photos on this page and on the home page
are by Chris Cogburn. |
