Jesse Lee Kercheval
Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
- A new year is a gift--
- Happy Solstice!
- Another thanks to The Rumpus for running "Irregular Heart," which was the first piece I drew for the new, forthcoming graphic memoir HOUSEHOLD GODS @fieldmouse.press ! Link in comments! therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...
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- On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. And President Obama sits on the Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, April 16, 2012.
- Photos from the State of Florida archives, taken of me for a newspaper interview in the Tallahassee of yore which show all of my moods--crazy to calm!
- Wisconsin friends!
- So lovely to be back in the Comics Room today with fellow Lynda Barry students and alums watercoloring some of my teeny travel sketches—
- My short story collection Underground Women is 6 years old today! “I’ve loved Jesse Lee Kercheval’s work for decades and am over the moon about Underground Women. It is so very timely: it is smart, and simmering under the surface with feminine rage.”—Lauren Groff uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5859.htm
- Thanks, Oldster! oldster.substack.com/p/what-kinds...
- Thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Ten Things to Save From a Fire." Buy a copy or subscribe here (support our literary journals!): riverteethjournal.com/print-issues...
- Thanks to The Rumpus for publishing my graphic memoir piece "Irregular Heart" therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...?
- Thanks, Black Warrior Review! bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
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- Thanks to @therumpus.net for publishing my graphic narrative "Irregular Heart". therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...
- back in the studio after the book tour!
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- Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
- Last day to submit!
- Flores Raras at ALTA!
- If you are going to American Literary Translators Association conference in Tucson, I'll be reading from Flores raras, 55 Uruguayan women poets at the off-site reading below and a panel on translating the work, New Visions, New Versions: Uruguayan Women Poets, Friday at 3:45 in Copper C.
- One week left to submit your poetry manuscript, translators! $1500 prize, publication by University of Wisconsin Press in their prestigious Wisconsin Poetry Series. You can submit more than one year (different judge) and more than one manuscript.
- Today in Madrid/ Hoy en Madrid!
- Thanks to FivePoints and Alicia Raines for this interview with me. And for publishing my graphic narrative "Birds" in their latest issue! fivepoints.gsu.edu/the-art-of-g...
- Ten years ago tonight--the book launch for Circe Maia's The Invisible Bridge. The first book of Uruguayan poetry I translated--and still my favorite!
- Translators! Send in your book length poetry translation! $1500 prize, publication by the University of Wisconsin Press! You can resubmit--different judge every year!
- Thursday at the studio
- Wonderful news! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?
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- My book launch of my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL last year on this day at the Wisconsin BookFestival! This morning flying to DC for @smallpressexpo.bsky.social to read from the book and signing copies again at the great @fieldmouse.press table! It's been a lovely year with this book as company!
- Wednesday in the studio--
- Meanwhile the river
- A reminder to get your poetry translation manuscripts in for the Wisconsin Translation Prize! $1500 and publication by the University of Wisconsin Press. This year it is Daniel Borutzky for the Translation Prize.
- Meanwhile the river—
- Me, on the cover of my All Words memoir SPACE. Me, on the cover of my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL @fieldmouse.press . If you are on Instagram, too, I have two accounts: words, travel pics, personal pics @jlkerche. Or my all art, all comics Instagram @jesseleekercheval
- Last year, my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL appeared in the world! Thanks to @fieldmouse.press ! Thanks to the Washington Post for naming it a Top Graphic Novel of the Year! It has been an amazing year. And you can still buy a copy! www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc...
- It exists! The Spanish edition of Flores raras [escondido país], the anthology of 55 Uruguayan women poets that I co-edited with Silvia Guerra Díaz! Published by Ediciones contrabando! Silvia and I will be doing readings and events in Spain in October--Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona and more.
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- My graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL--named by the Washington Post as one of the top graphic novels of the year--is now available from @asterismbooks.bsky.social ! As well as @fieldmouse.press asterismbooks.com/product/fren...
- A page from my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL @fieldmouse.press www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc...
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- A page from in my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL. www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc.... @fieldmouse.press
- Happy Book Birthday! América Invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets is 9 years old! If you are looking for a great anthology of poetry beyond the limitations the current world wants to set for us--read this one! Teach this one! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Americ...
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