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. His full-length collection, Possible Crocodiles, won the Society’s Book of the Year Award in 2010. 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. Leasing News in 2009 named Barry Marks one of the 25 top influential Industry Contributors: