Grantee-Partner Profile
Ugly Duckling Presse is a collectively-run, nonprofit publisher of poetry, translation, experimental prose, performance texts, and books by artists.

Initiative targets chronic underfunding of literature, directing unrestricted support to literary arts nonprofits serving writers and readers across the U.S.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
Hrabě’s poems embody the Czech sixties literary scene, during which the Beat Generation’s literature permeated Czechoslovakia.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
A Canadian writer who has received recognition from quintessentially French institutions.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
A poet with interests in cross-border affinities in poetic history.

Prose from Poetry Magazine
Street portraits and poetry depicting the unfolding nuances of under-heralded people’s veracity and beauty.

Prose from Poetry Magazine
Disgusting, isn’t it, how much we want to be loved?

Prose from Poetry Magazine
Surely the experience of immigration reinforced my predilections, but some people are simply born looking backward.

Prose from Poetry Magazine
Where my ex deemed me unmaternal because of my writing, the opposite is true: I’m no good to anyone if I don’t preserve this one thing for myself.

Prose from Poetry Magazine
On Translating Halina Poświatowska
There’s playfulness and a love of life set against the specter of death.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
On Translating Blaže Koneski
Koneski’s contributions as a scholar, linguist, academic, poet, fiction writer, and translator were foundational in the development of Modern Macedonian literature.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
On Translating Shamsher Bahadur Singh
The only world he cared for was poetry.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
Editor’s Note, May 2026
There’s no consistently iambic verse in the May issue, but there is—as always—form.