Nancy Kuhl’s first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, was published in 2007 by Shearsman Books. She is the author of three chapbooks,The Nocturnal Factory, published in 2008 by Ugly Duckling Presse, Means of Securing Houses &c. from Mischief by Thunder and Lightning, published by Propolis Press in February 2009, and In the Arbor, which was a winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press.  

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, Interviews, Reviews:

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

Review of Bone Pagoda by Susan Tichy in Rain Taxi

Review of a half-red sea by Evie Shockley in Rain Taxi