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Beyond Perfect-Bound
by Andrew Mauzey  and Michael Dinsmoor


In the spring of 2009, Chapman University in Orange, California began Tabula
Poetica, a  wide-ranging educational project dedicated to the collaborative
exchange of ideas about poetry. Jen Bervin and Nancy Kuhl, both of whom
have participated in poetry publishing outside the production of
full-length books, were among the project¹s first visiting poets.


 Jen Bervin <http://www.jenbervin.com/> 's artist book The Desert (Granary
Books 2008)‹and its five thousand yards of blue thread‹reside in thirty
special collections. including The J. Paul Getty Museum, The British
Museum, Stanford University, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the
Library of Congress. Her other books include Nets (Ugly Duckling Presse,
2004); A Non-Breaking Space (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005); The Red Box; and
Under What Is Not Under Poets and Poets, 2000). Bervin's  exhibitions
include "Black Pages" at Shandy Hall in York, England; "On  Clouds" at
Observatory in Brooklyn; and "Threads" at The Center for Book  Arts in New
York. Her work has been shown at The Walker Art Center, The  Soap Factory,
The Wright Exhibition Space, and The Camargo Foundation  in Cassis, France.


Nancy Kuhl¹ <http://www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm> s second full-length
collection, Suspend, is forthcoming in 2010 from Shearsman Books, which
published her first full-length collection, The Wife of the Left Hand
(2007). She is the author of two chapbooks: The Nocturnal Factory (Ugly
Duckling Presse, 2008) and the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize winner In the
Arbor (Kent State University Press, 1997). Kuhl¹s work is included in the
limited-edition artist¹s book Means of Securing Houses &c. from Mischief by
Thunder and Lightning (Propolis Press, 2009). She is the author of two
exhibition catalogs: Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts
<http://www.upne.com/0-8457-3149-1.html>  and Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van
Vechten¹s Portraits of Women <http://www.upne.com/0-8457-3148-3.html> , both
distributed by Yale University Press. Kuhl is co-editor of Phylum Press
<http://www.phylumpress.com/>  and Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection
of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
<http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/>  at Yale University.


Jen Bervin visited the Chapman campus on April 21, 2009 for a  poetry
reading and a talk about her intertextual work, particularly in  relation to
Emily Dickinson¹s poetry. Nancy Kuhl visited campus on April  14, 2009 for a
poetry reading with Richard Deming and a talk about the  poets¹ artifacts
held at Yale University¹s Beinecke Library. After their  visits to campus,
Chapman University MFA students Andrew Mauzey and  Michael Dinsmoor
conducted the following interview with the two poets  via e-mail.


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