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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 3d

Translators! Send in your book length poetry translation! $1500 prize, publication by the University of Wisconsin Press! You can resubmit--different judge every year!

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 21d

Thursday at the studio

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 27d

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!

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 21d

Thursday at the studio

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 24d

Wonderful news! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?

Arthur Sze named as new US poet laureate

Library of Congress, which has been under fire from Trump administration, appoints author and translator, 74

www.theguardian.com

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 26d

Charles Simic

WAR
The trembling finger of a woman
Goes down the list of casualties
On the evening of the first snow.
The house is cold and the list is long.
All our names are included.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 27d

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!

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 29d

Wednesday in the studio--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 29d

Wednesday in the studio--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 5

Meanwhile the river

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks!

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 5

Meanwhile the river

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 4

Meanwhile the river—

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 4

Meanwhile the river—

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Aug 26

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...

French Girl — Fieldmouse Press

by Jesse Lee Kercheval Told in a series of stories that blend boldly expressionistic and dreamlike colors with spare and unflinching text, French Girl is Jesse Lee Kercheval’s debut graphic memoir...

www.fieldmouse.press

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Aug 26

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...

French Girl — Fieldmouse Press

by Jesse Lee Kercheval Told in a series of stories that blend boldly expressionistic and dreamlike colors with spare and unflinching text, French Girl is Jesse Lee Kercheval’s debut graphic memoir...

www.fieldmouse.press

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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