About Phylum Press Founder & Editor Nancy Kuhl
Nancy Kuhl’s fourth full length collection of poems, On Hysteria, was published in July 2022 (ORDER: Shearsman UK // ORDER: Amazon). Of On Hysteria, psychoanalyst and literary critic Adam Phillips writes: “Making poetry and psychoanalysis seem of a piece, Kuhl manages in this remarkable and unusual book to write poems at once poignant, incisive and lyrical about experiences that are uncanny in their ordinariness.” More about On Hysteria.
Granite was published in 2021 as part of the Lost Rocks series by A Published Event. Her third full-length collection of poems, Pine to Sound, was published in 2015 by Shearsman Books; earlier books are Suspend (2010) and The Wife of the Left Hand (2007). She is the author of chapbooks, The Birds of the Year (Grenfell Press), The Nocturnal Factory, and Little Winter Theater 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 February 2009.
She is 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 exhibition catalogs including Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts, Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten’s Portraits of Women), and The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn.
Selected Poems Online
A Case History in Poetry Daily
The Talking Cure in Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Rock and Root in Crevice Communities Exhibition, 2021 Creative Practice Circle
From Granite (text) // From Granite (audio) at A Published Event
Three Poems in Web Conjunctions
Three Poems in Web Conjunctions
Special Projects
Tender by A Published Event (at Brisbane Writers Festival, May 2022)
An Interstitial Collaboration: Karla Kelsey and Nancy Kuhl
Pages from Roger W. Babson’s Final and Permanent Book published on Dogtown Common, Massachusetts, 2019, Room 26 Discrete Notions, 2020: Margaret Woodward and Nancy Kuhl
