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UDP is a frugal organization that has blossomed through fervent and utopian belief in the potential of volunteer effort. We cut our corners and stretch our dollars, so whatever you give will go a long way. A donation of $800 procures foreign language rights for a book in translation; $1150 funds an apprentice’s monthly stipend, $2000 covers the printer bill for one chapbook, $3000 pays for a month of rent and utilities, and $4000 pays for for the printing of a modest book of poems (not including labor).

Please consider supporting UDP’s activities and initiatives with a donation online through the link above, or by check to Ugly Duckling Presse, The Old American Can Factory, 232 Third St, #E-303, Brooklyn, NY, 11215. If you would like to see your donation directed towards a particular series or program, please say so in the comments field of the form below, or the memo line of your check.

 

 

EVERYTHING COULD BE: UDP’s 2025 FUNDRAISER

 

WHAT: During the month of March, UDP is fundraising for another year of collective experimentation and shoestring publishing with the sale of a special, limited-edition book produced by the collective.

Everything could be is a 30-page exquisite corpse–style poem composed of previously discarded “darling” lines donated by 155 UDP authors, translators, and friends—including Anne Boyer, Dodie Bellamy, Don Mee Choi, Julian T. Brolaski, Rachel Levitsky, Lewis Freedman, sadé powell, and Cole Swensen.

Letterpress-printed and bound with a Japanese stab stitch at the UDP studio, each limited-edition book will cost $75. Through sales, donations, and a celebratory party in early April, our goal is to raise $25,000 to support UDP’s day-to-day operations, printing costs, and wages.

WHY: The way UDP is organized is unusual: editorial work—including selecting manuscripts and working with authors and translators during the editing phase—is shared by over fifteen volunteer collective members and contributing editors. The rest of the tasks associated with bookmaking—design and printing, administrative labor of managing the studio, applying for grants, and producing, distributing, and promoting over sixteen titles a year is managed by a part-time staff of four.

The commitment and donated labor of UDP’s editors means we can publish a more diverse and robust list than we could otherwise; we work hard to ensure that even as rent and production costs increase (and as federal funding is threatened), the studio staff can be fairly compensated and we can continue to publish work that is new, experimental, and challenging.

WHO:

Editorial Collective

Marine Cornuet, Yelena Gluzman, chuck kuan, Silvina López Medin, Anna Moschovakis, Lee Norton, Daniel Owen, Kyra Simone, Rebekah Smith, Serena Solin, Milo Wippermann

Contributing Editors

C. Bain, Anneysa Gaille, Kindall Gant, Eleana Hofer, Sarah Passino, Jadine Pluecker, Jennifer Shyue, Mónica de la Torre, Camila Valle

Staff

Marine Cornuet, Keri Kelly, Serena Solin, Milo Wippermann

Board of Directors

Ian Dreiblatt, Jonathan Lethem, Anna Moschovakis, Lee Norton, Daniel Owen, Kyra Simone

2024–25 Apprentices

James Barickman, Sara Malagón Llano

Spring 2025 Intern

Julia Kiernan

Everything could be authors

A * Alejandro Albarrán Polanco * Alexis Almeida * Samuel Amadon * Kostas Anagnopoulos * Bruce Andrews * Diana Arterian * B * Erica Baum * Daniel Beauregard * Dodie Bellamy * Cara Benson * Susan Bernofsky * Charles Bernstein * Anselm Berrigan * Marshall Bood * Juliana Borrero * Iana Boukova * Anne Boyer * Conor Bracken * Gillian Brassil * Julian T. Brolaski * C * Lénaïg Cariou * Don Mee Choi * Kate Colby * John Coletti * Rob Macaisa Colgate * Corina Copp * Eduardo Costa * Natalee Cruz * Alex Cuff * Iris Cushing * Simon Cutts * D * Kyle Dacuyan * Joel Dailey * Steve Dalachinsky * Lauren de Sá Naylor * Constance DeJong * Carina del Valle Schorske * Luu Dieu Van * Patrick Dunagan * Craig Dworkin * Kristin Dykstra * E * Joshua Edwards * F * Nathaniel Farrell * Farnoosh Fathi * Ava Fedorov * Robert Fitterman * Craig Foltz * Michael Ford * Katie Fowley * George Fragopoulos * Lewis Freedman * G * Diana Garza Islas * Maryam Monalisa Gharavi * Peter Gizzi * Arielle Greenberg * Agustín Guambo * H * Anthony Hawley * Janet Hendrickson * Brenda Hillman * Betsy Hulick * Christine Hume * I * Bethany S. Ides * Dimitra Ioannou * J * Mikael Johani * Lucy Jones * Kira Josefsson * K * George Kalamaras * Michael Kasper * Pablo Katchadjian * Madhu H. Kaza * Sibyl Kempson * Jozefina Komporaly * Damon Krukowski * Nancy Kuhl * L * Mark Lamoureux *Woody Leslie * Rachel Levitsky * Eugene Lim * Matt Longabucco * Es Lv * Natalie Lyalin * M * Aditi Machado * Chantal Maillard * Filip Marinovich * Melinda Mátyus * A Maxwell * Noa Mendoza * Ken Mikolowski * Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi * Ainsley Morse * Jed Munson * Tinashe Mushakavanhu * Robin Myers * N * Sawako Nakayasu * Esther Neff * Vsevolod Nekrasov * Jeffrey Joe Nelson * Jennifer Nelson * Michael Nicoloff * Urayoán Noel * O * Cindy Juyoung Ok * Eugene Ostashevsky * Yuko Otomo * P * Cal Paule * Ekaterina Petrova * JD Pluecker * Liliana Ponce * Daniel Poppick * sadé powell * Jèssica Pujol Duran * E.R. Pulgar * Q * Justin Quinn * R * Nicholas Rattner * Eleonora Requena * Sarah Riggs * Julie Ritter Borsa * Kim Rosenfield * Stephen Rosenshein * Cecilia Rossi * Thomas Rothe * Judah Rubin * Michael Ruby * S * Trey Sager * Isadoro Saturno * Nay Saysourinho * Kyle Schlesinger * Simona Schneider * Simon Schuchat * Leonard Schwartz * Jessica Sequeira * Fatemeh Shams * Bela Shayevich * Jennifer Shyue * Barbara Siegel Carlson * Sally Silvers * Isabel Sobral Campos * Carlos Soto Román * Ed Steck * Michael Stewart * Clare Sullivan * Kendra Sullivan * Matthew Sweney * Cole Swensen * Jake Syersak * Stacy Szymaszek * T * Mike Taylor * Marina Temkina * Maureen Thorson * U * Friese Undine * V * Erica Van Horn * Catalina Vargas * Sara Veglahn * W * Alli Warren * Erica Weitzman * Inger Wold Lund * Z * Maged Zaher * Elizabeth Zuba * Alex Zucker * Magdalena Zurawski