Founders and Editors
Ron Self
Keith Badowski
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Our Mission
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 a 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 outrageous as a carnival sideshow.
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Copyright © 2010 Brick Road Poetry Press
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Possible Crocodiles by Barry Marks
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Barry Marks is a Birmingham attorney whose poetry, fiction, articles and essays have been published in nearly 100 journals, magazines and periodicals over the last 30 years. Mr. Marks was 1998 Alabama State Poetry Society Poet of the Year and his chapbook, There is Nothing Oppressive as a Good Man, won the Society's 2003 Morris Chapbook Competition. A member of the Big Table Poets, his work is featured in that group's anthologies, Poems from the Big Table and Einstein at the Odeon Cafe. He is a past president of the Alabama State Poetry Society and a former Board member of the Alabama Writer's Conclave.
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“Dancing on the Rim is a book of human relationships and the complex and often painful ways
the heart is forced to negotiate the world. These are insightful, brave, and honest poems, and they teach us time and again, how to live and how to love the world. "
—David Bottoms Poet Laureate of Georgia, author of Shooting Rats at the Bibb County
Dump and Vagrant Grace
“Clela Reed possesses the poet’s eye and the poet’s gift for language, her mastery of metaphor and lushness of image evident
everywhere in this collection. In surprising and delightful ways, she often links the quotidian with the primal to demonstrate the timelessness of our human yearning and connection. Here is a bright
new voice in American poetry.”
—Sarah Gordon, author of Distances and Flannery O'Connor: the Obedient Imagination
“Love occupies the landscape of Dancing on the Rim: family, friends, the delicious vista of romantic love with all its nuance and
shifts. Deftly crafted with fine detail and sure music, these poems resonate with experience, yet sing with the innocence of discovery. Reed cherishes “this natural dare to reach” moving
readers to the edge, allowing them to tumble into surprise and pleasure. A wonder-filled debut! ”
—Karla Huston, author of An Inventory of Lost Things, Centennial Press, 2009.
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