Recent publications: an essay, “A Poetics of an Outsider,” with five poems, is in Southern Quarterly (Fall, 2007), pp. 35-51. Two poems from his Unspeakable Strangers, “The Hindenburg” and “This Way to the Gas” are in the new edition of Charles Fishman’s edition of Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (2007).
He also authored The Window (1981), and other collections. At Florida State University he co-directed the writing program, founded The Southeast Review (as Sundog), International Quarterly (1993-1999), and founded and directed Anhinga Press from 1973-1975. Anhinga now offers the Van K. Brock Florida Poetry Series.
He is completing a new collection Poems Swimming Underwater: Histories, on creative non-fictions, and on workiRecent publications: an essay, “A Poetics of an Outsider,” with five poems, is in Southern Quarterly (Fall, 2007), pp. 35-51. Two poems from his Unspeakable Strangers, “The Hindenburg” and “This Way to the Gas” are in the new edition of Charles Fishman’s edition of Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (2007).
He also authored The Window (1981), and other collections. At Florida State University he co-directed the writing program, founded The Southeast Review (as Sundog), International Quarterly (1993-1999), and founded and directed Anhinga Press from 1973-1975. Anhinga now offers the Van K. Brock Florida Poetry Series.
He is completing a new collection Poems Swimming Underwater: Histories, on creative non-fictions, and on working on a study of poetry as witness as well as on poems which include poems of witness..