Books and Chapbooks
UDP publishes 15 to 20 titles per year of new poetry, translation, experimental prose, performance texts, and books by artists. Many of our titles fall within the specific series outlined below. Our full-length (trade paperback) books are printed in initial runs ranging from 600 to 1,500, and we keep our books in print when finances allow. Our chapbooks are printed in editions of 450 to 750; because of the hand-labor that goes into some of our chapbooks (and because ephemerality is part of their nature) we do not typically reprint them, but they are made available for free viewing in our Online Chapbook Archive after they go out of print. View all UDP titles in our catalog.
Second Factory
Second Factory is UDP’s periodical. It showcases work from a variety of poets and artists in each issue. Spotted like a bird in the wild, heard as a grinding piece of machinery, Second Factory manifests in examples: an office park of shadows; a vast and boundless shed; a grape in the risograph; a butterfly in a net.
Dossier
UDP’s Dossier Series was founded in 2008 to expand the formal scope of the press. Dossier publications don’t share a single genre or form—poetry, essay, criticism, interview, artist book, polemical text—but an investigative impulse, broadly conceived. (Series Editor: Anna Moschovakis) View all Dossier titles. Lifetime Subscriptions are available here.
Lost Literature
The Lost Literature Series publishes neglected, never-before-translated, or scarcely available works of poetry and prose, with a focus on twentieth-century international avant gardes and marginal writers from around the globe. (Past Editors: Ryan Haley, Katherine Bogden.) View all Lost Literature titles. Lifetime Subscriptions are available here.
Señal
Señal is a chapbook series for contemporary Latin American poetry in bilingual editions. (Editorial Board: Mónica de la Torre, Jen Hofer, Silvina López Medin, JD Pluecker, Jennifer Shyue, Rebekah Smith, and Camila Valle) View all Señal titles. (Past Editors: Brenda Lozano, Matvei Yankelevich.) Lifetime Subscriptions are available here.
Emergency Playscripts and Emergency INDEX
The Emergency Series includes Emergency Playscripts, Emergency INDEX, and a forthcoming series of monograph pamphlets, Emergency Analysis. The series has its roots in the Emergency Gazette (1999-2002), a free biweekly broadsheet on performance. The Playscripts series endeavors to publish one new text per year, choosing scripts that can expand the practice of theater. Emergency INDEX is an annual print publication documenting new performance in the words of its creators. Because performance transcends disciplinary boundaries, INDEX includes performances of every kind, from any genre, made anywhere in the world for any purpose. (Series Editors: Yelena Gluzman and Matvei Yankelevich. Index Editor: Zoe Guttenplan) View all Emergency Playscripts titles. View all volumes of Emergency INDEX. View the Emergency INDEX website. Lifetime Subscriptions are available here.
Eastern European Poets Series
The Eastern European Poets Series (EEPS) was founded in 2002 to make available historically important texts as well as the newest work of emerging poets from Eastern Europe. As of 2023 the series is published by World Poetry Books (a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation) under the direction of its founding editor and curator, Matvei Yankelevich. UDP will continue to make available older titles in the series, but all new titles will be made available through World Poetry, which will also honor EEPS Lifetime subscriptions. Please address all correspondence regarding the series to editors[at]worldpoetrybooks.com.
Ugly Duckling Poste
Ugly Duckling Poste is a series of intermittently published limited-edition postcards. Each postcard in the series is printed letterpress at UDP, numbered, and signed by the author. View all Ugly Duckling Poste cards.
UDPR
UDPR was a vinyl record series for the sound of poetry, initiated in 2017 and curated by Michael Barron and Matvei Yankelevich. View all UDPR titles.
Original Web Books
UDP’s Original Web Books series was created to provide a space for works uniquely suited to internet-based engagement. View all Original Web Books.
6×6
6×6 was our poetry periodical, and was retired in 2017 with the publication of issue #36. Each issue contained six poets who were each given six pages to present their work; we encouraged projects that specifically explored the format. 6×6 published poets of all ages from all over the U.S. and abroad, and aimed to include a poet in translation in every issue. We put out three issues a year, and submissions were encouraged year round. (6×6 Editors: Rotating editorial staff comprised of UDP Collective members and volunteers) View 6×6 issues.
Paperless Book Department
The Paperless Book Department publishes and distributes books which escape attempts to keep them in one place. Though the term “paperless” has been more frequently associated with the possibilities of digital storage of language, in this case “paperless” is meant to address the basic assumptions and structures of book distribution and its relationship to how we read. (Editor: Yelena Gluzman)