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THE UDP COLLECTIVE Yelena Gluzman OUR MISSION & PROGRAMS Chuck Kuan Sarah Lawson Ugly Duckling Presse is a not-for-profit publisher for poetry, Silvina López Medin Anna Moschovakis translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and Michael Newton books by artists. With a volunteer editorial collective of artists Lee Norton and writers at its heart, UDP grew out of a 1990s zine into a Daniel Owen small press that has published more than 300 titles to date, with Kyra Simone an editorial office and letterpress workshop in the Old American Rebekah Smith Matvei Yankelevich Can Factory in the industrial neighborhood of Gowanus, Brooklyn. UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, BOARD OF DIRECTORS and our books, chapbooks, special editions, periodicals, Amy S. Choi Edwin Frank broadsides, and ephemera often contain handmade elements, Peter Freed calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. In all Rebecca Gee of our activities, UDP endeavors to create an experience of art Nicholas Risteen free of expectation, coercion, and utility. Every year, UDP publishes between twenty and twenty-five ADVISORY BOARD titles, some of which belong to our various series: Dossier, the Neil Alger Eastern European Poets Series, Lost Literature, Emergency Charles Bernstein Playscripts, the Señal series of contemporary Latin American James Copeland poetry, Original Web Books, and Paperless Books. James Hoff Bob Holman Our out-of-series books tend to be single volumes by English- Jennifer Kabat language poets, or works in translation. Our print runs typically Ben Lerner range from 750 to 1,500 copies for books (trade paperbacks), and Sarah McCarry Brett Price 500 to 750 for chapbooks, some of which are bound by hand with Troy Selvaratnam the help of volunteers at the UDP workshop.
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