Brick Road Poetry Press

poetry made to entertain, amuse, and edify

341 Lee Road 553 Phenix City, AL 36867 United States

The mission of Brick Road Poetry Press is to publish and promote poetry that entertains, amuses, edifies, and surprises a wide audience of appreciative readers.  We are not qualified to judge who deserves to be published, so we concentrate on publishing what we enjoy. Our preference is for poetry geared toward dramatizing the human experience in language rich with sensory image and metaphor, recognizing that poetry can be, at one and the same time, both familiar as the perspiration of daily labor and as outrageous as a carnival sideshow.

About Barry mARKS

author of My Father Should Die in Winter & Possible Crocodiles

 
Danielle Hanson

Barry Marks is a Birmingham attorney. His most recent book, Dividing By Zero, combines poetry, narrative and fiction to tell the story of the damage caused by a writer’s self-possession. Possible Crocodiles, his first book, was named 2010 Book of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. Sounding, his second book, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for Independent Publishers.

Barry’s most recent project is a pair of poetry/music collaborations with Professor Alan Goldspiel of the University of Montevallo. The first, Sometimes Y, has been performed at music conferences and universities around the country, and the second, tentatively entitled and Sons, is a companion to this book. Barry was Alabama’s Poet of the Year for 1999 and twice President of the Alabama State Poetry Society.