Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Photo: © Dan H. Fuller

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of fifteen books of poetry and fiction and a translator, specializing in Uruguayan poetry. Recent books include The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia and América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets (reviewed here). She is the Zona Gale Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin.

French Girl by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jesse Lee Kercheval
Grass Valley, California. Fieldmouse Press. 2024. 244 pages.In this color-drenched graphic memoir reminiscent of the dreaminess of Chagall, Jesse Lee Kercheval has moved the genre to…
I Want to Tell You by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jesse Lee Kercheval
Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023. 80 pages. Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poems in I Want to Tell You give rise to the possibility that abjection can apply to grief, as in the impossibility o…
Poems as Lyrics: Poemas musicalizados in Uruguay

September 2018
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Tatiana Oroño and the musician Daniel Petruchelli, who set her poem “Elogio del camino” to music, taken at a performance at the Casa de los escritores (House of Writers) in Montevideo / Photos by Mari…
Scientific Poetry / Poetic Scientists

April 18, 2016 Jesse Lee Kercheval
Courtesy of the SARAS InstituteLast month I had the marvelous opportunity, as a poet, of participating in the annual conference of an international scientific organization, the South American Institut…
Weighers of Pearls

November 17, 2015 Jesse Lee Kercheval
The image is central to most poets and poetry. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish,” the image is the poem. “His brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper, / and its pattern of dark…