Nancy Kuhl’s second full-length collection of poems, Suspend, was published in May 2010 by Shearsman Books; her first book, The Wife of the Left Hand, was published in 2007. She is the author of chapbooks including Little Winter Theater (2011) and The Nocturnal Factory (2008), both published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and In the Arbor, which was a winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press; Means of Securing Houses &c. from Mischief by Thunder and Lightning, a limited edition artist's book including Kuhl's work,was published by Propolis Press in 2009.  

She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher, and Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where she curates the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series. She is the author of two exhibition catalogs, Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts and Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten’s Portraits of Women which are distributed by Yale University Press.

Online Projects:

Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities:
http://brblroom26.wordpress.com/

Poetry at Beinecke Library:
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/

African American Studies at Beinecke Library:
http://beineckejwj.wordpress.com/

Selected Conversations and Interviews:

Beyond Perfect-Bound, with Jen Bervin at PoetryFoundation.org

Conversation on the (Re)Emering Poet in Bookslut

University at Buffalo Profile

Wick Poetry Center Writing Lives

Every Other Day First Book Interview

Spotlight: Room 26 in Yale Bulletin

Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities on CT Public Radio