Brooklyn Arts Press
Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) is an independent publisher of poetry, literary fiction, non-fiction, art books, and music. The company was founded in 2007 by writer Joe Pan in Brooklyn, New York. In 2015, the small press was compared to Radiohead and Louis CK for running a promotional sale that allowed readers to pay whatever they wanted for a new Noah Eli Gordon paperback book, leading to local and international speculation as to whether the campaign would be instrumental in changing how poetry books are sold in the US. In 2016, Daniel Borzutzky's book The Performance of Becoming Human, published by BAP that April, won the National Book Award for Poetry.
Brooklyn Arts Press
- Founded
- Brooklyn Arts Press was established or created in 2007.
- Founder
- Joe Pan
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn Arts Press is situated in United States.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) is an independent publisher of poetry, literary fiction, non-fiction, art books, and music. The company was founded in 2007 by writer Joe Pan in Brooklyn, New York. In 2015, the small press was compared to Radiohead and Louis CK for running a promotional sale that allowed readers to pay whatever they wanted for a new Noah Eli Gordon paperback book, leading to local and international speculation as to whether the campaign would be instrumental in changing how poetry books are sold in the US. In 2016, Daniel Borzutzky's book The Performance of Becoming Human, published by BAP that April, won the National Book Award for Poetry.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Brooklyn Arts Press. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q19874118 · wikipedia · Brooklyn Arts Press
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Founded — 2007 • Founder — Joe Pan • Country — United States • Headquarters — Brooklyn, New York • Distribution — Small Press Distribution • Keypeople — Noah Eli Gordon, Anselm Berrigan, Joe Pan, Michael Ernest Sweet, Daniel Borzutzky • Publications — Books • Genre — poetry, fiction, art • Url — www.brooklynartspress.com
History
History
Brooklyn Arts Press, or BAP, began with the self-publication of Joe Pan's first book, Autobiomythography & Gallery, after his debut manuscript was named a finalist for several major poetry contests, including the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award, and the National Poetry Series. The book went on to be named “Best First Book of the Year” by Coldfront Magazine, and allowed BAP to begin publishing more books. While the recession halted production in 2008 and 2009, in 2010, the publishing company soon “broke the barrier where each book pays for the next." Since then, the small press has published between 9-12 books per year, including Christopher Hennessy's Love-In-Idleness, which was a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in 2012. On June 1, 2017 Brooklyn Arts Press released the debut LP from Brooklyn indie-rock trio Tuff Sunshine.
Notable Authors
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Brooklyn Arts Press is situated in United States.
Country
Brooklyn Arts Press is associated with United States.
Country
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Brooklyn Arts Press”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q19874118: Brooklyn Arts Press
General reference · Wikidata
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Publishers and printers
5,459 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Broadway BooksOrganisation
- Brock UniversityOrganisation
- BroderbundOrganisation
- Broekmans & Van PoppelOrganisation
- Brown UniversityOrganisation
- Bruno Gmünder VerlagOrganisation
- Brunswick BooksOrganisation
- Bubble Bus SoftwareOrganisation
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Brooklyn Arts Press?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.