Founders and Editors

Ron Self
Keith Badowski

 

Our Mission

Not every person claiming to be a poet deserves to be published, but every deserving poet ought to have a chance to be published. The mission of Brick Road Poetry Press is to provide that opportunity for a select few poets of promise and ability, poets who recognize that the primary purpose of poetry is to communicate the human experience in a language rich with sensory image and metaphor, recognizing that poetry can be, at one and the same time, both down to earth and reaching for the stars.

 

 

 
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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 by Clela Reed

“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.