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Second Factory, now in its seventh issue, is the annual journal of Ugly Duckling Presse. 2F publishes poetry, visual art, and translation by artists and writers worldwide. The work we are drawn to reflects UDP's love of the mangy, the feral, the subcutaneous, the full-bodied, the otherwise-unpublishable, and is selected by a rotating crowd of UDP editors, friends, apprentices, and other shadows—whoever happens to be on the floor when it comes time to put it together.
Though we have been publishing Second Factory for seven issues and going strong, this is our first reading since 2022 and the first IRL. In New Orleans we will bring together contributors representing all 2F issues and all corners of the (poetry) world. Each poet will present a short work, around a minute in length. We are looking forward to meeting each other in the flesh.
