Brooklyn Arts Press

Brooklyn Arts Press, BAP, is a small literary press devoted to publishing art monographs and poetry books by emerging artists. Experimentation, innovation, and devotion to formal and historical aspects of art are all honored here, as these traits supply the means by which all works are created and diverge. We hope to serve the community by placing books of varying aesthetics side by side, and by subverting the current notion that artistic camps exist in vacuums, apart from the culture in which they reside and apart from other camps. Language and imagery will be used to whatever ends, by whatever means, by the voices that manipulate them, which are by nature numerous and diverse.

BAP was founded in 2007 as an organization designed to publish emerging poets and artists. Our staff is comprised of unpaid loyalists, whose editorial resolve, time, effort, and expertise allows BAP to publish 5-6 new books a year.

New Art Monograph

Jonathan Allen

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Jonathan Allen grew up in a family of nine in Georgia. In high school he won a scholarship to study painting in New York and now holds a BA in visual arts and art history from Columbia University. He participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space residency program and in The Bronx Museum of Art’s Artist in the Marketplace program, and has exhibited at numerous galleries in New York, including Caren Golden Fine Art, Oliver Kamm/5BE, PS122 and Exit Art. His work recently entered the Microsoft Art Collection and in 2009 was exhibited at Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen. In 2008, Jonathan Allen was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He lives and works in Brooklyn and Queens, New York.

New Poetry Book

Chris O. Cook

To Lose & to Pretend

“[Cook's book] is evidence of a fine mind at work, a collection of poems that never settles for the obvious. His work probes the apathy and alienation of his generation, wielding poetics like a cudgel to extract the essential from the incoherence of pop culture vapidity that we have accepted as our metaphor. Startlingly honest, unafraid of humor, these poems force you to sit down and take notice.”
— Cheeni Rao