Performance and readings: Ugly Duckling Presse celebrates the release of new issues of 6x6 magazine with music by Daniel Carter and friends, as well as Jon DeRosa(of Aarktica) with horns (Harry Rosenblum, Craig Colorusso, James Duncan), Sea Foxx with Stephen Calhoon (drums), Jen Carey (tuba), Adrianne Mamet (vocals, guitar), Anna Moschovakis (violin, washboard, vocals), Pierre de Gaillande (guitar, vocals), Earl Norman (keyboard, trumpet), and Readings by Erica Wietzman, Phil Cordelli, Ana Bozicevic, Dorothea Lasky, and several surprise guests.
Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art & publishing collective producing small to mid-size editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books, based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. UDP makes public emerging, international, and "forgotten" writers and projects that are difficult to place at other presses. Its full-length books, chapbooks, artist's books, broadsides, magazine and newspaper all contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. In collaboration with Loudmouth Collective and with various visual and performance artists, Ugly Duckling Presse also supports and participates in the creation of works off paper. UDP endeavors to create spaces in which people can experience art, free of expectation, coercion, and utility.
The poetry magazine 6x6 was just such a project, and one of UDP's first collective creations... 6x6 appeared in the year 2000 as a mysterious oddly-shaped object where six poets could find six pages of space for their work. Printed in editions of 600 copies, bound with a rubber band, and sold cheap for freaks, 6x6 has made its way into little bookstores all across the country, and now moves into double digits with issues 9 and 10.