READ THE LATEST UDP NEWS events   >> Sept 2008: Slovene Poetry Week IN BOSTON Thursday, May 8, 7:30 pm Sam Truitt, Aaron Kiely and Michael Ruby (an All-UDP Author Revue) @ Pierre Menard Gallery 12 Arrow Street, Harvard Square Cambridge, MA Friday, May 9, at 8pm SAM TRUITT and STACY SZYMASZEK @ PEACE ON A 166 Avenue A (between 10th & 11th) Thursday, May 15 SEGUE BOOK FAIR / new books from small presses Figures, Granary, Roof, United Artists, Yo-Yo Labs, Bootstrap, and UDP @ TBA Monday, May 26, at 8pm KATE COLBY and JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church Wednesday, May 28, at 8pm [NYC] 6x6 SALON at THE KITCHEN Release of new issues; Readings by 6x6 poets; Music by THE QUAVERS and I FEEL TRACTOR. @ THE KITCHEN 512 W. 19th Street, NYC PAST EVENTS> Saturday, May 3, 4:00pm The Art of Translation PEN America, Zoland, and NYU co-present this event featuring the translators ofof UDP's forthcoming The Russian Version by Elena Fanailova Forrest Gander, Fanny Howe, Stephanie Sandler, and Genya Turovskaya; introduced by Eliot Weinberger @ Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House of NYU 58 West 10th St. Friday, April 25, 7:00pm UDP at The Old American Can Factory: Phil Cordelli, G.L. Ford, Elizabeth Reddin, Filip Marinovich Some UDP editors and collaborators share their work in a beautiful room in the mythic building that houses the Ugly Duckling Presse workshop. UDP books will be sold at deep discount, as long as you can carry them away. @ THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY 232 Third Street, Brooklyn, NY (corner of 3rd Ave and 3rd St., near the Gowanus Canal, F or R trains nearby) Tuesday, April 29, 5:00pm Anna Moschovakis and Matvei Yankelevich two UDP editors read their poems and talk about stuff @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, NYC BOOK PARTY! Tuesday, April 22, 5:00pm Leonard Schwartz and Mercedes Roffé Celebrate their new books from Shearsman Books, Chax Press, and Ugly Duckling Presse. (Limited signed editions of THE LIBRARY OF SEVEN READINGS by Leonard Schwartz from UDP.) @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, NYC Monday, April 21st, at 7pm Poetry Society of America Awards Ceremony Celebrate Aram Saroyan's receipt of the William Carlos Williams Award for Complete Minimal Poems. @ the Grand Ballroom National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC. IN CHICAGO, IL Thursday, April 17, 7:00pm Dan Machlin @ Powells North Bookstore 2850 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL Saturday, April 19, 4:00pm THE SEGUE SERIES Dan Machlin @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, NYC IN LOS ANGELES, CA Saturday, April 12, 7:30pm Dan Machlin w/ Ara Shirinyan and Joseph THomas @ Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA Friday, March 28 at 6:30 BOOK PARTY: KATE COLBY & JEFFREY YANG East Slope by Su Shi, translated by Jeffrey Yang & Unbecomoing Behavior by Kate Colby @ PROTEUS GOWANUS 543 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY Gowanus Canal on Union Street bridge, first large red brick building on left. Enter Proteus Gowanus through large black gates on Nevins. readings & refreshments & books on sale ($3 suggested donation to support the Proteus Gowanus gallery) Sunday, March 30, 6:00-8:00pm BOOK PARTY for two new releases: A Different Practice by Fredrik Nyberg, translated by Jennifer Hayashida Book of Fears, a picture book by Ava Fedorov Swedish hors d'oeuvres will be offered Books will be discounted Ava and Jennifer will be there to sign them @ The Good World Bar & Grill 3 Orchard St., between Canal & Division NYC, 212-925-9975 Saturday, March 22, 7:00pm JEFFREY YANG reads, with on-site painting by Hu Renyi and live-brewed Chinese medicine! An experimental performance of the five senses... @ Hermitage Beacon 12 Tioronda Ave. Beacon, NY 12508 (845)765-1650 Thursday, March 6, 7pm-midnight National Small Press Month Reading Marathon Dan Machlin represents UDP; lots of great poets and presses are represented. @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (just north of Houston), Manhattan, NYC $6 Sunday, March 9, 6:30pm Zinc-TRS Reading Series Elizabeth Reddin & Justin Sirois @ Zinc Bar 90 West Houston St. $5 goes to the poets CALIFORNIA: BERKELEY Wednesday, February 6, at 4pm " Poetry in the Age of Total Communication" a lecture (in English) by Aleksander Skidan @ Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 270 Stephens Hall ~ BERKELEY For more information, call ISEEES at (510) 642-3230UC SANTA CRUZ Thursday, February 7, at 3:30pm and 6pm Aleksandr Skidan will give a talk (in English) at 3:30 and a reading of his poetry (in Russian and English) at 6pm The reading will take place inside of an art project (by Eireene Nealand) that recreates the architectural conditions of the Soviet Union in the late 1970s with the purpose of finding out more about the effects of this architecture. PROVIDENCE, RI Monday, February 11, 4pm A poetry reading by Aleksandr Skidan and Henry Gould @ Brown University, Marston Hall B1 MIDDLETOWN, CT Tuesday, February 12 Aleksandr Skidan @ Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Wednesday, February 13 at 7pm Aleksandr Skidan @ Hunter College, 68th and Lexington Ave, Manhattan, NYC Thursday, February 14 Aleksandr Skidan @ Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY Friday, February 15 Dan Machlin @ The Burning Chair Reading Series Brooklyn, NY Sunday, February 3 at 6pm BALAKLAVA / Eastern European Reading with poets Alta Ifland and Saviana Stanescu, and translator Adam Sorkin @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (just north of Houston), Manhattan, NYC $5 BOSTON Monday, February 4, 7pm Aleksandr Skidan Sponsored by Grolier Book Shop & New England Poetry Club @ Yenching Library, Harvard University 2 Divinity Avenue (near Saunders Theater) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Free CHICAGO Tuesday, February 5 at 12 pm (noon) Aleksandr Skidan @ The John Flasch Artist's Book Collection Flaxman Library The School of The Art Institute of Chicago 37 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL (Open to students and faculty of the Art Institute only) Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 8:00pm Dan Machlin & Jen Hofer @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church 131 E. 10th St. NY, NY $7 CHICAGO Wednesday, January 30 at 2 pm Aleksandr Skidan, reading and book signing sponsored by the University of Chicago @ 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street, Chicago free CHICAGO Wednesday, Jan 30 at 7:30 pm Aleksandr Skidan and Devin Johnston The Danny's Reading Series @ Danny's Tavern 1951 W. Dickens, Chicago (near the intersection of Armitage and Damen) free | 21+ | 774-489-6457 | Friday, February 1 at 5pm A reading with poets from New Directions, Zoland and UDP Dan Machlin, Kate Colby, Forrest Gander, Mani Rao, Jim Kates, Jeffrey Yang @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (just north of Houston), Manhattan, NYC Saturday, February 2 from 11am to 2pm UDP Book Signings at AWP Book Fair Aleksandr Skidan, Kate Colby, Dan Machlin, & Adam Sorkin will be available to chat and sign books at the Ugly Duckling Presse book table @ the AWP book fair in NYC Sunday, January 27 at 5pm The St. Petersburg Review presents: Matvei Yankelevich reading translations of Daniil Kharms and Aleksandr Skidan reading his own work @ Unnameable Books 456 Bergen Street (between 5th Ave and Flatbush) Brooklyn, NY free | 718-789-1534 Monday, January 28 at 7pm The St. Petersburg Review and UDP present: Peter Gizzi, Genya Turovskaya and Aleksandr Skidan @ Readings Between A & B 11th Street Bar, 510 E. 11th Street (Between Avenues A & B), Manhattan, NYC free Saturday, January 19 at 4pm Anna Moschovakis and Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Segue Series) @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (just north of Houston), Manhattan, NYC $6 admission goes to support the readers | segueseries.blogspot.com Wednesday, January 16 at 7pm @ A PUBLIC SPACE Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky will read from works by DANIIL KHARMS and the OBERIU ...followed by a modest reception... In celebration of two books: TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms and OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism @ A Public Space (the offices of the magazine) 323 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY free* | 718.858.8067 *please RSVP to Matvei (yan@pobox.com) *This event is co-sponsored by Russian American Cultural Center, Overlook Press, and A Public Space Monday, January 14 at 7:30 pm Eugene Ostashevsky, with Pierre Joris and Michael Loughran (release reading for Ostashevsky's new chapbook, Enter Morris Imposternak...) @ Readings Between A & B 11th Street Bar, 510 E. 11th Street (Between Avenues A & B), Manhattan, NYC free Monday, January 14 at 8pm Jeni Olin and James Hoff @ The Poetry Project at St Marks Church 131 E. 10th St. (2nd Ave and 10th St.), Manhattan, NYC IN PARIS, FRANCE Saturday, December 15, 7:00pm Double Change et Le Point Éphémère une lecture bilingue de poésie / a bilingual poetry reading EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY & SÉBASTIEN SMIROU @ Point Éphémère 200 Quai de Valmy, Paris 10e (M° Jaurès, lignes 2 ou 5) Entrée libre Thursday, December 6, 7:30 to 10:30 FACE OUT BOOK PARTY Celebrating the release of 5 books by NYC authors, from 5 small presses: LILA ZEMBORAIN / mauve-sea orchids / BELLADONNA BOOKS IHSAN BRACY / paths of sanctuary / COOL GROVE PRESS PRAGEETA SHARMA / infamous landscapes / FENCE BOOKS BRENDA IIJIMA / animate, inanimate aims / LITMUS PRESS DAN MACHLIN / dear body: / UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE @ The Good World Bar & Grill 3 Orchard St., between Canal & Division NYC, 212-925-9975 with music by THE VINTAGE DJ FACE OUT is a program of the Jerome Foundation and the Council on Literary Magazines and Presses IN MADISON, WI Thursday, November 29, 4:30 FELIX: a series of new writing Dan Machlin (with Janet HOlmes) @ University of WIsconsin, Madison 126 Memorial Library IN CINCINATI, OH Tuesday, November 27, 8:00 CY PRESS PRESENTS Dan Machlin (with Aryanil Mukherjee) @ Publico 1308 Clay St. Cincinnati, OH IN AMHERST, MASS Tuesday, November 27, 4:30 p.m. BOOK PARTY for The Development of Aerial Militarism... with translator Michael Kasper @ Amherst Books 8 Main Street Amherst, MA 01002 IN SOUTH BEND, IN Monday, November 26, 7:30-9:45 Dan Machlin (with Peter Davis) @ University of Notre Dame Creative Writing Program South Bend, IN IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS Saturday, November 10, 7 p.m. Lev Rubinstein (author of Catalogue of Comedic Novelties) @ Pierre Menard Gallery 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge (Harvard Square, up Arrow Street from Cafe Pamplona). ENTRY = $10 to benefit the author. Sunday, November 18th, 1:30pm Lev Rubinstein @ Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY Sunday, November 18th, 6pm MEMORIAL READING FOR D.A.PRIGOV with Lev Rubinstein, Charles Bernstein, Vitaly Komar, Marina Temkina, and others. @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker, NYC IN BUFFALO, NY Thursday, November 15 Just Buffalo Reading Series Dan Machlin @ Rust Belt Books Buffalo, NY Saturday, November 3 Dan Machlin (with Greg Pardlo) @ The Ear Inn NYC Monday, October 29, 9:00 - 11:00pm BOOK PARTY for The Hot Garment of Love is Insecure ELIZABETH REDDIN reads and performs with her band, Legends @Zebulon 258 Wythe Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 718-218-6934 FREE Music by LEGENDS, JUDITH BERKSON, and DJ Bethea IN BERKELEY: Tuesday, October 16, 7:30 pm Dan Machlin & Brent Cunningham @ Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley IN SEATTLE: Wednesday, October 17, 7:30 p.m. Dan Machlin/Travis Nichols @ Richard Hugo House 1634 Eleventh Avenue The Cabaret/Cafe Room Suggested Donation $5 Thursday, October 11, 7:00pm POETICS OF THE CONDENSARY Elaine Equi & Aram Saroyan on Minimalist Poetry @Poets House 72 Spring Street, 2nd Floor $7, Free to Poets House Members Info: 212-431-7920 Sunday, September 16, from 10am to 6pm BROOKLYN BOOK FEST Check out 100 publishers. Visit our table and get special discounts. Plus a reading by Steve Dalachinsky, author of The Final Nite (UDP). @ Borough Hall Plaza Court and Joralemon, Downtown Brooklyn Free Sunday, September 16, 7:00 pm DAN MACHLIN & LAURA SOLOMON (a release for two new UDP books) THE ZINC/TRS READING SERIES @ The Zinc Bar 90 West Houston, between LaGuardia & Thomason, NYC $5 suggested donation goes to the poets Friday, September 28 at 8:00 pm Jimmy's No. 43 Stage LAURA SOLOMON (with Dorothea Lasky and Matthew Zapruder) 43 E. 7th Street between 2nd & 3rd, NYC Saturday, September 8, 7:00 pm Soon Reading Series LAURA SOLOMON (with Dorothea Lasky) @ State of the Art Gallery 120 W. State St., Ithaca NY Monday,September 10, at 7pm IVAN BLATNY: A READING AND CELEBRATION Featuring editors and translators of The Drug of Art @ The Czech Center Free. Reception to follow reading. Books will be sold at special discount. Friday, May25 at 8:00pm KOSTAS ANAGNOPOULOS & SARAH RIGGS @ Unnamable Books 456 Bergen Street Brooklyn NY (718) 789-1534 A poetry reading and unveiling of brand-new UDP artifacts from Anagnopoulos and Riggs. ............ then, head over the bridge to see Ellie Ga et al: Friday, May25 at 10:00pm LOST & FOUND @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church 131 E. 10th St. @ 2nd Ave. NYC An evening of fugitive transmissions from filmmakers, artists, and poets: DAVID GATTEN, MACGREGOR CARD, MARY HELENA CLARK, ELLIE GA, JENNY PERLIN, MICHAEL ROBINSON and JESSIE STEAD Thursday, May 17, 5:45 - 8pm The Annual Joint Book Party! w/ The Figures, Roof, Yo-Yo Labs, United Artists, Granary, & Ugly Duckling Presse A party celebrating the publication of new and recent titles from all these presses, including new UDP books by Elizabeth Reddin, Paul Killebrew, Mariana Marin, Craig Foltz and Aram Saroyan @ Jack Shainman Gallery 513 W. 20th St. NYC Free. Sunday, April 22 at 4:00pm Live Magazine! (#2) with Brenda Iijima (yoyolabs), Matvei Yankelevich (UDP), John Reed (B'klyn Rail), plus audience participation (bring your poems!), hosted by Jeffry Cyphers Wright @ Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction / FREE 34 Avenue A (one block north of Houston), NYC Wednesday, April 11, 7:00pm Translation Tag Team: ARCHIPELAGO & UGLY DUCKLING Eastern European Poetry in Translation with reading by translators Bill Johnston and Matthew Sweney. @ 192 Books / FREE 192 10th Avenue, Chelsea, NYC Sunday, April 8 at 4:00pm Reading at A PUBLIC SPACE UDP authors Edwin Frank and Eugene Ostashevsky (and with Katia Kapovich and Melissa Monroe) @ A Public Space / FREE 323 Dean Street (btw 3rd and 4th Avenues) Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Sunday, April 1, 2:00-4:30 pm Release Party for David Cameron's FLOWERS OF BAD (from Unbelievable Alligator and UDP) Drink and make merry with Baudelaire. Readings by David Cameron, Kim Lyons, Eugene Ostashevsky, Edwin Torres, and Joanne Wasserman. @ Bowery Poetry Club / Free 308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker, NYC Sunday, April 1, 7:00pm Anastasia Chekhovskaya, Elena Fanailova, Iana Tokareva,Tatiana Zima. Bi-lingual reading of visiting Russian poets and prose writers. Presented by CEC/ArtsLink. *Elena Fanailova has a book forthcoming from UDP, translated by Genya Turovskaya & Stephanie Sandler. @ Bowery Poetry Club / Free 308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker, NYC Tues., Feb. 20, 7:00-9:30 PM A BOOK PARTY AND READING to celebrate the recent publication of: Paul Killebrew's Inspector vs. Evader Featuring readings by: Paul Killebrew, Anselm Berrigan, and Christian Hawkey @ PROTEUS GOWANUS 543 Union Street, Brooklyn (Gowanus Canal on Union Street bridge, first large red brick building on left. Enter Proteus Gowanus through large black gates on Nevins.) Tues., Feb. 13, 7PM SALON 6X6: a celebration of issues #12 and #13 of 6x6 magazine READINGS: Sawako Nakayasu, Cynthia Nelson, Matthew Rohrer, Evan Willner, Lynn Xu and Special Guest TBA & MUSIC: Coraline (Catherine McRae with Dennis Cronin), Chris Cogburn & Liz Tonne, Legends (Elizabeth Reddin, Raquel Vogl, James Loman), Rio en Medio (Danielle Stech-Homsy) @ The Kitchen 512 W. 19th St., NYC 212-255-5793 *This event is free and open to the public. No reservations. Seating is first-come, first-served. Thurs, Dec. 14, 7PM The Marquise Dance Hall Poetry Series C.S. CARRIER, CHRISTINA CLARK, PAUL KILLEBREW, JULIEN POIRIER Readings celebrating the release of 6x6 #11, and new chapbooks by Killebrew (UDP) and Poirier (Insert Press). @ MARQUISE DANCE HALL 251 Grand Street Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11211 718-388-0044 Free curated by Jennifer Kronovet SAN DIEGO, CA Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:00pm (sharp) CRAIG FOLTZ r3gallery 2421 India Street, San Diego BERKELEY, CA Thursday, Nov. 9, 7:30 ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS and ELIZABETH TREADWELL Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley 510 649-1320 OAKLAND, CA Friday, Nov. 10, 7:30 MATVEI YANKELEVICH and CRAIG FOLTZ small apartment reading for details e-mail Matvei: yan_at_pobox.com PORTLAND, OR Saturday, Nov. 11, 7:30 pm Spare Room reading EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY, CRAIG FOLTZ and WAYNE CHAMBLISS New American Art Union 922 SE Ankeny Street, Portland $5 suggested donation Friday, Nov. 3rd, 7PM Craig Foltz and Nathalie Stephens Foltz' new UDP book, The States, will be on hand @ PETE'S CANDY STORE 709 Lorimer Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn (718) 302 - 3770 Free Friday, Nov. 3, 9:30pm The tiny presses shall inherit the earth! A nighttime junction of tiny and once tiny presses. Join us for a roundtable discussion with poet-editors from Lame House Press, Phylum Press, Sona Books, Ugly Duckling Presse and United Artists Books. Discussion to be followed by casual readings. Peruse and purchase many books! @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church 131 East 10th Street New York, NY $8 / $7 / $5 Saturday, Nov. 4th, 2pm UDP @ PS1 Fine Print: Alternative Media at P.S.1 presents an afternoon of experiments in literature curated by the extra "e" in UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE; featuring work from Craig Foltz, Ellie Ga, David Gatten, Airport War, Les Figues Press and the micro-explorers club. @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Street Long Island City,Queens This event is free with museum admission. $5 suggested donation; $2 students & senior; Free for MoMA members 718-784-4729. Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006, 8pm Bernadette Mayer and Vito Acconci @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church 131 East 10th Street New York, NY $8 / $7 / $5 Wednesday, Oct 18, 8pm AARON KIELY & JOHN S. HALL @ The Poetry Project St. Marks Church in the Bowery 2nd Ave and 10th Street $8 / $7 / $5 Saturday, Oct. 21, 5pm-7pm NYC Book Release 0 TO 9: The Complete Magazine 1967-1969 @ Printed Matter 195 Tenth Avenue New York, NY (free) Saturday, Oct. 7, 4pm Stan Apps & Kim Rosenfield SEGUE READING SERIES @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 BOWERY, just north of Houston, NYC $6 admission goes to support the readers Saturday, August 26, 7pm MICHAEL FORD a reading celebrating the NYC release of Carbon (UDP2006) @ Bluestockings Books 172 Allen Street, NYC Wednesday, June 7, 6-8 pm. OSIP MANDELSTAM CELEBRATION Come hear translations of the Russian twentieth-century poet Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) read by many translators. Celebrate the release of an anthology of new translations of Mandelstam edited by Ilya Bernstein for Ugly Duckling Presse. Reading hosted by Andrey Gritsman @ Cornelia Street Cafe   Cornelia Street, off Bleecker, NYC Monday, May 29, 8pm MARISOL LIMON MARTINEZ & RYAN MURPHY @ The Poetry Project St. Marks Church in the Bowery 2nd Ave and 10th Street $8 / $7 / $5 Friday, June 2nd, 7PM "THREE CHAPS" reading/release for new Ugly Duckling Presse chapbooks by Craig Foltz (with concept/design by Ellie Ga) Peter Gizzi & Lewis Warsh @ PETE'S CANDY STORE 709 Lorimer Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn (718) 302 - 3770 Free Thursday, May 11th, 4pm SAINT GHETTO AMHERST BOOK PARTY Translator Michael Kasper and UDP editors Ryan Haley, James Hoff & Matvei Yankelevich storm the ivory tower @ Amherst College The Robert Frost Library Amherst College Rtes. 9 & 116 Amherst, MA Sunday, April 30, 6pm The Balaklava! Eastern European Poets Series presents AN OSIP MANDELSTAM CELEBRATION Celebrate the release of an anthology of translations of Mandelstam edited by Ilya Bernstein  for Ugly Duckling Presse. Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery between Bleecker + Houston, NYC Come hear translations of the Russian twentieth-century poet Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) read by many translators, including: Ilya Bernstein, Ian Dreiblatt, Alex Halberstadt, Christian Hawkey, John High, Kevin Kinsella, Eugene Ostashevsky, Luba Ostashevsky, Alan Shaw, Ian Probstein, and Val Vinokur. Acclaimed stage actor Viktor Persik and some of the translators will also be reading some Mandelstam in the original. $6 at the door gets you a free copy of the book! Saturday, May 6th, 5pm SAINT GHETTO NEW YORK BOOK RELEASE Translator Michael Kasper will talk about Gabriel Pomerand & read from Pomerand's various writings @ Printed Matter 195 Tenth Avenue (btwn 21st & 22nd), NYC Thursday, April 27, 5:30-7:30 SPRING BOOK PARTY with Roof Books, The Figures, Granary Books, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, and Ugly Duckling Presse @Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th, NYC >> BOOK TOUR for Lidija Dimkovska's Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers March 20-April 17 >> click for schedule >> Monday April 17 @ 7pm Lidija Dimkovska final reading & book release KGB Bar, 4th Street (between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) Wednesday, April 19th, 7:30pm A CELEBRATION OF INNOVATIVE NYC POETRY PRESSES Fence Books, Four Way Books, Futurepoem Books, and Ugly Duckling Presse -Readings by Jen Bervin, Michael Ives, Sarah Manguso, Anthony McCann, Eugene Ostashevsky, Jason Schneiderman, Sasha Steensen, and Jo Ann Wasserman. Editors Dan Machlin, Anna Moschovakis, Martha Rhodes, and Charles Valle will introduce the poets and take part in a short panel after the reading. @ Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street, NYC Admission is $10 / $7 for PSA Members & Students. Reservations: 646-312-4085 Friday, April 14, 7:30pm UDP GOES TO LOS ANGELES Stan Apps, Brent Cunningham, Cedar Sigo, Anna Moschovakis, Genya Turovskaya, Matvei Yankelevich @ Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA Thursday, March 30, 7pm LIDIJA @ BLUESTOCKINGS Lidija Dimkovska, Rachel Levitsky, Ales Mustar @ Bluestockings Books 172 Allen Street, NYC Sunday, March 26, 7pm BALAKLAVA! BOOK PARTY DO NOT AWAKEN THEM WITH HAMMERS Macedonian poet Lidija Dimkovska and Slovenian poet Ales Mustar will read their poems in English translations; Matthew Zapruder will read from his forthcoming book of translations from the Romanian. @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery between Houston & Bleecker, NYC $6 at the door / discount on the book inside! Saturday, March 18, 2pm TARPAULIN SKY / FREQUENCY SERIES Eugene Ostashevsky & kari edwards & Julie Kizershot @ The Four-Faced Liar 165 West 4th Street (between 6th & 7th Ave), NYC Sunday, March 19, 3pm UDP editors read in Washington D.C. Anna Moschovakis, Phyllis Rosenzweig and Matvei Yankelevich @ In Your Ear 2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan Washington DC (south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street) Admission $3, FREE for DCAC members Monday, March 20, 8pm UDP AUTHORS @ THE POETRY PROJECT Lidija Dimkovska and Anthony Hawley @ The Poetry Project St. Marks Church in the Bowery 2nd Ave and 10th Street $8 / $7 / $5 Saturday, March 4, 7:00 pm BOOK RELEASE PERFORMANCE & PARTY Bethany Wright & John Surowiecki Wright, author of Indeed, Insist (UDP 2005) will perform. Surowiecki, author of Further Adventures of My Nose (UDP 2005) will read with Barry Shapiro. @ McNally Robinson Booksellers 50 Prince Street (between Lafayette & Mulberry), NYC 212-274-1160 Thursday, February 23, 7:30 pm BOOK RELEASE PARTY Marisol Limon Martinez Martinez will present her new poetic abecedaire, After you, dearest language, just out from UDP. @ Proteus Gowanus 543 Union Street (near 3rd Ave.) Brooklyn, NY Friday, February 10, 7:00 pm READING AND BOOK RELEASE Eugene Ostashevsky & Bruce Stutz Ostashevsky reads from his collaboration with artist Eugene Timerman, Infinite Recursor Or The Bride Of DJ Spinoza, co-published by UDP. The Page Series @ The National Arts Club 15 Grammercy Park South, NYC Free, open bar Jacket requested Sunday, January 29 4pm and 6pm 4:00 pm: AlulA poetry reading Jen Bervin, Corina Copp, Pattie McCarthy $6 (which also gets you in to the Balaklava! reading, below 6:00 pm: BALAKLAVA! Andrey Gritsman (NYC) Gabor Gyukics (Budhapest) @ The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC ($6, unless you already paid at 4:00) For more information on the BALAKLAVA READING SERIES including bios/pictures of the readers, please visit our new site. Friday, January 13, 7:00 pm READING AND BOOK RELEASE Edwin Frank & Dan Machlin reading from their UDP chapbooks, Stack and 6x7 @ 192 Books 192 10th Ave, at 21st St., NYC and in St. Louis: Thursday, January 5, 8:00 pm Readings @ the Tap Room Aaron Belz, Aaron Kiely, Aaron Kunin, Aaron McCoullough, & Aaron Tieger (2 out of 5 Aarons are UDP authors!) @ The Schlafly Tap Room 2100 Locust St. St Louis, MO Sunday, December 18, 7:00 pm THE ZINC/TRS READING SERIES Trey Sager & Bill Kushner @ The Zinc Bar 90 West Houston, between LaGuardia & Thomason, NYC $5 suggested donation goes to the poets Monday, December 5, 8:00 pm Corey Frost & Filip Marinovich @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church $8, $7 for students and seniors Tuesday, December 6, 8:00 pm THE BATTLE HILL READING SERIES Yago Cura & Elizabeth Reddin @ The Bar Below 209 Smith St Brooklyn NY Cross Street: Baltic Avenue (F to Bergen) Sat., December 10, 7pm SOON PRODUCTIONS Reading State of the Art Gallery 120 W. State St. , Ithaca, New York Matvei Yankelevich and Anna Moschovakis will be reading Saturday, December 3, 2:00pm Sisyphus Press Reading @ The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC Free with a one-drink minimum Sisyphus authors John Farris, James Hoff, Anna Moschovakis, Tom Obrzut, Julien Poirier, Thad Rutkowski, Tom Savage, Herschel Silverman, Jeff Wright join Sisyphus publishers Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo Sunday, December 4, 4:30pm Single Malt Poetry Sampling @ The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC w/ Bob Holman, Rob Fitterman, Monica de la Torre, Jen Bervin, Matvei Yankelevich (Sample a different whiskey with each poet who reads!) $15 includes 5 shots of scotch Sunday, Nov. 27, two readings @ The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC 4:00 pm: Alula Poetry Filip Marinovich, Paul Killebrew, Garrett Kalleberg, and Ian Dreiblatt $6 + one drink minimum 6:00 pm: BALAKLAVA! Lidija Dimkovska (Macedonian poet) Sebastian Reichmann (French/Romanian poet) ($6) *you only pay once if you stay for both Bowery shows For more information on the BALAKLAVA READING SERIES including bios/pictures of the readers, please visit our new site. Sunday, November 20th, 7:30pm The Sesquiannual Brooklyn one-page story marathon Magnetic Field 97 Atlantic Avenue, near Hicks st. Curated by Jonathan Dixon and Nelly Reifler, this event features many, many writers -- among them UDP's own Matvei Yankelevich -- all reading one-page pieces. Saturday, November 19, 3pm to 6pm White Box Gallery "Over and over the endless corner" An installation of people and things by Airport War featuring Ellie Ga, Ryan Haley, Julien Poirier, and Matvei Yankelevich. This sound-poetry performance is part of Performa05 $free IN SEATTLE: November 19, 3pm and 4pm Poetry in the Skyspace @ The Henry Art Gallery University of Washington Readings by Joshuan Beckman, Matthew Rohrer, Jen Bervin and Dorothea Lasky in the James Turrell Skyspace $free (these events are full) Sunday, October 30th, 6pm - BALAKLAVA! Young Russian-American Writers The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston) Readings (in English) by poets Genya Turovskaya & Ilya Bernstein and fiction writer Keith Gessen $6 goes to support the readers Saturday, October 15, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series Aaron Kiely & Elizabeth Reddin The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers Come hear Aaron Kiely read and check out his new UDP book, The Best of My Love. With Elizabeth Reddin, who will have her own UDP book next season. Tuesday, October 4, 6pm UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE at NYU (Free Event) Readings by KAREN  WEISER (author of "Placefulness"), TREY SAGER (author of "O New York"), YUKO OTOMO (author of "Small Poems"), and UDP editors, FILIP MARINOVICH & JULIEN POIRIER, plus GENYA TUROVSKAYA (editor of the Eastern European, Poets Series) will read from Arkadii Dragomoshchenko's, new book "Chinese Sun" Refreshments and discussion follow. Shorin Auditorium NYU's Kimmel Center at 60 Washington Square South note - BRING a valid ID to get through NYU security Wednesday, August 31, 7 pm INDEPENDENT SPOTLIGHT w/Watchword Press, Pindeldyboz, and 6x6 @ Bluestockings (172 Allen St, NYC) Readings by Geoffrey Detrani (6x6 #10), Matvei Yankelevich, Ada Limon, and Douglas Light. Music by Ben Murphy and Laura Starcheski Thursday, August 4, 6-8 pm Poetry Thursdays: The people behind Ugly Duckling Presse and Granary Books, interviewed by Mitch Highfill ACA Gallery 549 W. 20th St., 5th floor (between 10th and 11th Avenues) Tuesday, July 26, 5:30 - 7:15 pm Poetry reading and BOOK PARTY! Eugene Ostashevsky The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC Come celebrate the release of Iterature, Eugene's brand-new full-length collection from UDP's Eastern European Poets Series. Copies of the book will be available at the reading. Sunday, May 29th, 8pm - BALAKLAVA! Mario Susko & Vasyl Makhno The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston) $6 goes to support the readers Mario Susko is a Croatian poet and the author of 23 volumes of poetry. His fourth book in English, Eternity on Hold, was just published by Turtle Point Press. Vasyl Makhno is a Ukranian poet living in New York. Saturday, May 28, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series and BOOK PARTY! Brent Cunningham & Yuko Otomo The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers Come celebrate the release of two new UDP books—Brent Cunningham's Bird & Forest and Yuko Otomo's Small Poems—and help us bid farewell to our tenure as Segue coordinators. Thursday, May 26, 7pm The Belladonna* Reading Series Karen Weiser (Placefullness, UDP 2004) & Martine Bellen The Zinc Bar 90 West Houston @ LaGuardia Place, NYC $7 - $10 suggested donation Thursday, May 19, 6-8pm A collective publication party featuring new books from Granary Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, Roof Books, United Artists & The Figures. ZieherSmith gallery 531 W. 25th Street, Chelsea, NYC Saturday, May 21, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series Ruth Altmann & Laura Sims The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers Two great reasons to show up: Ruth Altmann is a terrific New York poet who rarely gives readings, and Laura Sims (featured in 6x6 #9) is coming out all the way from Madison, WI. [For a complete schedule click HERE or visit the SEGUE site for bios. Next up on Saturday, May 28: Brent Cunningham (from California) & Yuko Otomo, both with new books from UDP. The final reading!] Thursday, May 12, 7pm The KGB Reading Series Eugene Ostashevsky (UDP), Yongsoo Park (Akashic), Darren O'Donnell (Coach House), & Kirby Gann (IG Books) KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street, NYC Saturday, May 14, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series Steve Healey & Kate Colby The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers As if the stellar poetry isn't enough, everyone who comes to this reading gets a gorgeous double-chapbook from A_Rest_Press featuring the readers' work. [For a complete schedule click HERE or visit the SEGUE site for bios. Next up on Saturday, May 21: Ruth Altmann & Laura Sims (from Madison Saturday, May 7, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series Douglas Rothschild & Stan Apps The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers Stan App's brand-new chapbook from UDP will be unveiled. Douglas Rothschild will have some tricks up his sleeve. Come on down. [For a complete schedule click HERE or visit the SEGUE site for bios. Next up on Saturday, May 7: Steve Healey (from Minneapolis) & Kate Colby (from California) plus a new chap from A_Rest_Press] Saturday, April 30, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series Paul Killebrew & Philip Nikolayev The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers Come hear some great readings and collect another stunning limited-edition chap from A_Rest_Press, filled with formidable poetry by Paul and Philip. [For a complete schedule click HERE or visit the SEGUE site for bios. Next up on Saturday, May 7: Douglas Rothschild & Stan Apps (from California) plus a new UDP chap of Stan's work.] Saturday, April 23, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series Ed Roberson & Cedar Sigo The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers The brand-new expanded edition of Cedar Sigo's Selected Writings (UDP 2005) will be available at the reading. [For a complete schedule click HERE or visit the SEGUE site for bios. Next up on Saturday, April 30: Paul Killebrew & Philip Nikolayev (Boston), plus another limited-edition chapbook from A_Rest_Press.] Saturday, April 16, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series Lewis Warsh & Martha Ronk The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers A free, very limited-edition chapbook from A_Rest_Press containing work by Warsh and Ronk will be available at this reading. [For a complete schedule click HERE or visit the SEGUE site for bios. Next up on Saturday, April 23: Ed Roberson (from Chicago) and Cedar Sigo (from California). Sigo's brand-new book from UDP will be available at the reading.] Sunday, April 24th, 8pm - BALAKLAVA! Yuri Rytkheu & Oksana Zabuzhko The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston) $6 goes to support the readers Oksana ZABUZHKO is one of the most important Ukrainian writers working today. Her recent novel — Field Work in Ukrainian Sex — caused in sensation in those cultures which bothered to translate it, ours not one of them. A book of English translations of her poetry, A Kingdom of Fallen Statues, won the 1997 Global Commitment Foundation Poetry Prize. & Celebrating ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS' release of A Dream in Polar Fog by YURI RYTKHEU (translated from the Russian by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse) Saturday April 16th, 6 - 9pm Opening reception Anthology Film Archives 2nd Ave & 2nd Street, NYC Light and Substance : Four artist/filmmakers (including UDP collaborator Joel Schlemowitz) working with film both within and outside the space of the movie screen bring film's alternative potentials to the courthouse gallery, as projected image and non-projected film object Exhibit continues through April 24 Saturday, April 9, 2pm The Figures: Life Cycle of an Independent Press Geoffrey Young, publisher of The Figures with other small press publishers, including Jill Schoolman of Archipelago Books, Robert Hershon of Hanging Loose Press, James Sherry of Roof Books, and Anna Moschovakis and Matvei Yankelvich of Ugly Duckling Presse. at: Poets House 72 Spring Street, 2nd Floor, NYC Free Saturday, April 9, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series Genya Turovskaya & Sara Veglahn The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston), NYC $5 goes to support the readers Look forward to chapbooks and/or broadsides from A_Rest_Press and UDP at spring Segue readings [Segue Series coordinators for April & May: Anna Moschovakis and Matvei Yankelevich from UDP. For a complete schedule click HERE or visit the SEGUE site for bios. Next up on Saturday, April 16: UDP author Lewis Warsh with Martha Ronk, from Los Angeles.] Sunday, April 10, 4pm Joan Speaks by Greg Ford (UDP editor & author);music by Julie Hartig A poem with music about Joan of Arc. Part of the Concert for Peace at: Broadway Presbyterian Church 114th Street and Broadway, NYC 917-604-3181 $10 Sunday, April 10, 3pm-5pm Joshua Beckman & Jen Bervin Reception and reading for an exhibition of artist books by the translator of Poker and the author of Nets. Exhibition dates: April 3 - April 29 at: The Word & Image Gallery at Bright Hill Center 94 Church Street Treadwell, New York 607-829-5055 Wednesday, April 13, 2pm Indy Press Panel Columbia MFA-sponsored panel on independent publishing featuring UDP with other presses. at: Columbia University Dodge Hall, 413 (B'way & 116th St.), NYC Tuesday, April 5th, 7pm Launch party for Circumference Magazine (poetry in translation) Matvei Yankelevich reads from his new translation of Mayakovsky's "Cloud in Pants." Also reading: translators Caroline Knox, Idra Novey, Jeffrey Yan Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art 495 Broadway (between Broome and Spring Streets) Third Floor (212) 925-2035 $5 / Free with purchase of the journal Sunday, March 27th, 8pm - BALAKLAVA! Hungarian Poetry Laszlo Garaczi & Ildiko Naomi Nagy (direct from Budapest) The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston) $6 goes to support the readers Saturday, April 2, 4pm The SEGUE Reading Series David Trinidad & Fred Schmalz with special guest hosts Karen Weiser and Christopher Stackhouse The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleeker and Houston) $5 goes to support the readers Look forward to chapbooks and/or broadsides from A_Rest_Press and UDP at spring Segue readings [Segue Series coordinators for April & May: Anna Moschovakis and Matvei Yankelevich from UDP. For a complete schedule click HERE or visit the SEGUE site. Next reading: April 9 at 4pm: UDP authors Sara Veglahn and Genya Turovskaya] UDP GOES WEST! (March 24-April 2) Thursday, March 24, 5pm Reed College, Vollum 110; Portland, Oregon Matvei Yankelevich talks about publishing Eastern European poetry in translation; Russian Emigre poetry; and Daniil Kharms' The Blue Notebook. Part of Reed College's "Russian Days" festival. Sunday, March 27, 7:30pm Richard Hugo House; Seattle, WA 1634 Eleventh Avenue UDP Collective Reading with: Dan Machlin, Anna Moschovakis, Genya Turovskaya, Matvei Yankelevich *Curated by Joshua Beckman of Wave Books. Wednesday, March 30 - Saturday, April 2 AWP Book Fair in Vancouver, B.C. Please visit our table! Come and chat. Saturday, April 2, 11am The Unassociated Writers Conference, Vancouver, BC Western Front Society 303 East 8th Avenue. All day: $8 (Can) A one-day writers gathering with: a small press fair (Clear Cut Press, Verse Chorus Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, etc.), independent media swap meet, and a space for talking, reading, listening to unassociated work. Evening music provided by P:ano and The Strangers. (Funny, isn't this in the same town as the Associated Writing Programs conference? and on the same weekend?) Monday, March 14, 8pm Poetry Reading: Genya Turovskaya and Kaia Sand Monday night series @ THE POETRY PROJECT St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St., NYC $8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for members. Genya Turovskaya is the author of Calendar (UDP 2002) Tuesday, March 8, 7pm Poetry Reading: Trey Sager and Daphne Beal Experiments and Disorders @ DIXON PLACE 258 Bowery (between Houston & Stanton) $5 212.219.0761 Trey Sager is the author of O New York (UDP 2004) Friday, Feb. 25, doors open at 7pm 6x6 Release Party!!! @ THE PROJECT ROOM 619 E 6th Street (between B & C) >> $6 suggested donation includes a copy of 6x6 Music by Jon DeRosa of Aarktica, Daniel Carter and friends, and Sea Foxx. Sporadic readings by Erica Weitzman, Phil Cordelli, Ana Bozicevic, Laura Solomon, Paul Killebrew, Geoffrey Detrani, past & present editors of 6x6, and surprise guests Wednesday, Jan. 26, 8pm Reading by UDP authors Joshua Beckman and Steve Dalachinsky The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church 131 E. 10th St., NYC Friday, December 17, 2004 Release Party for new chapbooks O New York and Novelty Act @ Drink Me (6th St. between B and C) 8pm til midnight (readings at 9pm) Friday, June 11 8pm til late Release Party for new books and chapbooks by Charlie Foos, Karen Weiser, Anthony Hawley. Music by Simone White, dancing dj Aaron Kiely, and I Feel Tractor. cheap drinks. cool bartenders. at the Nest. 88 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn. F to York, A/C to High St. 718-852-5529. Saturday, June 12, 4-6:30 (free) THE CLMP MAGATHON New York Public Library Periodicals Reading Room Fifth Avenue @ 42nd Street, NYC Meet the editors of AUFGABE, BALTIMORE REVIEW, BOMB, DUCKY MAGAZINE, FENCE, THE FIRST LINE, GULF COAST, LAND-GRANT COLLEGE REVIEW, LITERAL LATTE, MID-AMERICAN REVIEW, NINTH LETTER, ONE STORY, PAINTED BRIDE QUARTERLY, PEN AMERICA, 6x6, SMALL SPIRAL NOTEBOOK, SPIRE, and WATCHWORD. Sunday, June 13, 12-5 (free) FOURTH ANNUAL LIT MAG FAIR Housing Works Used Book Cafe 126 Crosby Street (between Houston and Prince), NYC Hundreds of literary magazines for $2 each. Wednesday, March 24, 8pm Currituck Co. / The T. Griffin Coraline / Harris Newman a night of great music presented by UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE and THE COLLAPSIBLE GIRAFFE $5 at the door and cheap beer @ the NEST 88 Front St, DUMBO F to York, A/C to High St March 24-28 The Midwest Mini-Tour with readings, performances, & books from Ugly Duckling Presse and Loudmouth Collective in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Bloomington, & Cincinnati [scroll down to the bottom of this page for schedule] Sunday, March 28, 8pm to 10pm Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC ($5) Balaklava / Eastern European Poets Series presents: EX-YUGOSLAV POETS on the Bowery Anja Mutic, Ksenija Simic and Filip Marinovich THE READERS: Ksenija Simic was born in Belgrade, (ex-)Yugoslavia in 1974, where she published a book of stories in 1997, published prose and poetry in a number of literary magazines and was invol