Brit Parks is an American writer, poet, artist, and scholar living in Paris, France. Parks engages her poetry, theory, and art poetics as a study of language itself whilst discussing abstracts of ephemerality, materialism, and vulnerable myths. GLASS LIMBS, her full-length poetry book, was released in 2021. Her forthcoming book, STONE AMNESIA, will feature a collection of poetry and art poetics. She has published upwards of 40 poems in international print publications, including five in the book SMEAR edited by Greta Bellamacina, three in The London Magazine, and twelve in ALBION AN ISLAND ON THE VERGE OF MADNESS by New River Press. Among other performances, she read her poetry at Shakespeare and Company Paris in 2019 and at Café Central in Menorca, Spain in 2023. In 2020, she was commissioned to write a poem for the Monuments Men Foundation to honour the 75th anniversary of WWII. Her art poetics are featured in the Japanese photography book MONO by Hiroko Matsubara and Sofia Fanego as well as Issue 3 of London-based DOESN’T EXIST MAGAZINE. She is currently a scholar at The Oxford School of Poetry focused on the poetics of exile from ancient civilizations to Modernism.
‘Brit's work is a music of regret. What I see in it is a special kind of Generation X melancholy, but pulled through centuries of European culture, with the ghosts of Baroque music and Symbolist painting in it— an American parking lot seen through the veil of a Puvuis de Chavannes painting, and tears. She is absolutely my favourite American poet of now.’
Robert Montgomery, Artist, Poet
Parks has served as the Art Editor and Features Writer for London-based UNPOLISHED Magazine since 2018. She is a contributing writer for TEETH Magazine, THE VIOLET BOOK, and FLAUNT Magazine. Internationally, she has published over 30 longform print features on art and culture. Her astral subjects include Robert Montgomery, Faye Wei Wei, Poppy Field, Greta Bellamacina, Tobias Spichtig, Del Water Gap, Alexa Chung, Scarlett Sabet, Ilyas Kassam, Say Lou Lou, Sofia Fanego, Jack Coulter, and Harley Cortez. Her work has been translated into Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and French.
An ardent scholar of Colour Pigment History, Rare Books, Archeology, Linguistics, and Art Theory, Parks received her Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a recipient of the Edes Fellowship for Emerging Artists. She was mentored by artists Frances Whitehead, Hans Breder, and Werner Herterich. Her conceptual art installations include film, performance, sculpture, and painting. Her work has been exhibited at Vedanta Gallery Chicago, Garage Tokyo, Ofr. Paris, and Chicago Filmmakers.
Parks has engaged in research projects at Ryerson & Burnham Library Rare Books Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum Special Collections in Chicago, and Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. She lived in New York for a decade where she held positions at the Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work travel highlights include Romania, Spain, France, England, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Moldova. Parks speaks French and Spanish.
Parks was born in Durango, Colorado in the United States waxing adventure in remote nature. After twenty years in Metropolis, she cast to the wild of the Mediterranean Sea and now lives in Paris, France to pursue poetic materialism.
‘Brit Parks writes with a magic luminosity. The heart of her words are worn and unexpected. They fill the page like a meteor shower, some long dead, some searching for future light, all set on fire.’
Greta Bellamacina, Poet, Actress