Jesse Lee Kercheval
@jesselkercheval
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
Interview with me on the Artists on Art podcast! artistsonartpod.com
Interview in the American Scholar! "You could write, you could draw, you could learn another language. I am living proof of that. More people should do something, whatever it is, that they haven't done before. Play an instrument. Pick up pastels." theamericanscholar.org/jesse-lee-ke...
Hello, friends! I have created a new website for my graphic memoirs and art! Like with most babies, there were labor pains but I am a proud momma. Check it out! www.jesseleekercheval.com
I have always wanted to have a poem in the great Beloit Poetry Journal! And now, I do! Along with so many other great poets! Buy the issue! Subscribe! If we do not support our literary magazines--we will not have any! www.bpj.org
Day 2 of the installation for my solo show at Edgewood University which opens August 17th! Opening reception September 3rd! All the framed original art is there now and David H Wells, the curator of the show, is arranging and hanging the 60 works! Cannot wait to see all on the walls!
Starting the installation for my solo show at Edgewood University gallery in Madison, Wisconsin, which opens August 17th! Opening reception September 3rd! Excited! Flyer with all the info in the comments!
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!
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 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-...?
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-...?
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.
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!