Van K. Brock is author of Lightered: New & Collected Poems (2005), Unspeakable Strangers (poems on the Holocaust, 1995), The Window (1981), a hand-sewn chapbook, The Hard Essential Landscape (!979), & other collections. He was for several decades at Florida State University as co-director of the writing program. He helped found The Southeast Review (then Sundog), International Quarterly (1993-1999), &, in 1973, Anhinga Press, which he directed for 25 years. In 2000, Anhinga Press dedicated Snakebird: 30 Years of Anhinga Poets to Brock and in 2006 named its Florida Poets Series for Brock. His poems from Unspeakable Strangers, (“The Hindenburg” and “This Way to the Gas”) wre in the new edition of Charles Fishman’s edition of Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust in 2007.

Lightered: New and Selected Poems (Anhinga Press, 2005), Unspeakable Strangers (Anhinga Press, 1995), The Window (Chase Avenue Press, 1981), The Hard Essential Landscape (University of Central Florida Press, 1979)

Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets (Anhinga Press, 2000), The Made Thing (University of Arkansas Press, 1999), Holocaust Poetry (St. Martin's Press, 1995)

New England Review, Omega: Online Literary Journal, Ploughshares, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, The New Yorker

New Letters on the Air, NPR and CD (2006)