Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. In all of its activities, UDP endeavors to create an experience of art free of expectation, coercion, and utility.

Jonathan González, Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025, © Jonathan González

a green book cover with a body leaping over trees in dark green ink, wrapped by a belly band of the same image in silver ink

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Ronald M. Schernikau, smalltownnovella, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025, © Ronald M. Schernikau

A black and white image of the author Ronald M. Schernikau, with his hand across his mouth: Provocative, haughty, coy, insolent, and wild.

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A textured silver cover with the author's name and book title in yellow and red peeking through a slit down the center.

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