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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

Who uses the tiny ladder?

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2 years

Meanwhile in Montevideo—

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Translator friend in Ukraine sent me this: Very hard to focus on work right now, but I try to keep amplify Ukrainian voices. If you or someone you know is interested in finding out more about Ukraine, here are some excellent translations of recent Ukrainian books into English:

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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1 year

Today, when I got my booster, the pharmacist asked what I did and when I said I was a poet, he recited part of Prufock from memory for me.

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2 years

Always found it amazing to read all of an author's work in order, novels, short stories, poetry books. I remember doing that one summer with Alice Munro & being amazed. Who would you like to read from beginning to end if you had/ could make the time?

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3 years

I am utterly delighted to announce that my latest poetry collection I WANT TO TELL YOU will be published by @PittPoetry in Spring 2023. And special thanks to Nancy Krygowski, Jeffrey McDaniel, and Terrance Hayes for believing in the work!

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2 months

Meanwhile teeny tiny black frog

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2 years

If a friend were going to give you one small inexpensive present that would make you very happy, what would it be?

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3 years

'Tis the season--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

So excited to be starting as series co-editor!

U of Wisconsin Press

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2 years

And effective early 2022, @JesseLKercheval joins Sean Bishop as co-editor

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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1 year

Envy as fuel? When I was at Iowa, a prof there pointed to a pile of books on his coffee table & said, "Those are the writers who got the awards I deserved." What kind of lesson is that? Life is that? Envy is the writers' disease. I remember that moment & try hard not to go there.

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1 year

Envy is fuel. Every time we look at someone else’s win & get that sick, hollow feeling of “that should be mine,” we’re right! Envy means we’re close. We don’t envy success we’ll never have, we envy those only a few rungs above us on the ladder.

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3 years

Do you ever write things you have already done on your To Do list just so you can cross them off?

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

Thanks to the @NewOhioReview for featuring my art on the cover of their new issue!

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3 months

My poetry group last night at dinner! We have met every two weeks for decades! Me since 1994. 2 woman longer than that. Glorious! Love them!

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3 months

Meanwhile 40 years together

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2 years

Two years ago, locked down in Montevideo, Uruguay, I contemplated drawing for the first time in my life! I bought these 76 colored pencils! So I guess today is my Artist-a-versary!

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

Meanwhile in Wisconsin—

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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4 months

Yowza, want to guess the age of the editor who thinks people who are 50 look like this?

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4 months

This grant is for writers over 50. Look at the image.

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3 years

Any one else still use a bar of soap in the shower or bath (as opposed to bath gel, body wash etc)? Or am I stuck, alone, in the last bath century?

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2 years

Cover reveal for my new poetry book I WANT TO TELL YOU out from University of Pittsburgh Press in January! Art by the amazing Uruguayan artist Virginia Patrone! Poetry friends, I would be delighted to Zoom into any of your Spring semester classes!

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Woke up to find my essay collection HOW CAN THERE BE NOW IF THERE WAS NO THEN is a finalist for the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction @awpwriter . Judge Chloé Cooper Jones has the hard job of picking a winner ! !

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2 years

Total surprise! A box arrived and it is copies of my new book, I WANT TO TELL YOU, from the @PittPoetry ! (Surprised because the official pub date is January 31 so was not expecting them so soon!)

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Sunrise through my hospital room window. Was in surgery for 5 1/2 hours yesterday evening but all went well and this sunrise was a lovely sight to see! Thanks for all the good wishes--really helped!

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

Meanwhile in Wisconsin—

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2 years

Meanwhile, in Uruguay

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Without downloading new pictures, show me your creative process?

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Delighted to announce that starting with the next issue, I will be joining the great crew at the @nwest_review as Translation Editor

Poetry and “more” since 1957 - Northwest Review

Rogue literary magazine publishing the frontier of American letters since 1957. 100% run by volunteers. Open for submissions!

nwreview.org

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3 years

@mondomascots Mascot of the Kyoto Art Museum making mochi!

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3 years

Today's sketch--

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2 years

Meanwhile the river--

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1 year

Meanwhile the Andes

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3 years

Are you in a writing group (not a class) that meets to discuss your poetry, fiction or nonfiction?

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Meanwhile 40 years

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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10 months

In March, 2020, locked down in Montevideo, Uruguay, I wrote: "I now have 76 colored pencils! So, what should I do with them? Can I possibly learn to draw or cartoon?" Now finishing my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL which will be published by @FieldmousePress this coming year.

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3 years

Making pies!

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2 years

Another drawing for the graphic essay I am working on—

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Headed to the hospital for some major but pretty common surgery. Technically a left hemicoloctomy (taking my left intestine out because of diverticulitis). Turns out we have more intestine than we need! Good news! So see you back here in a bit.

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3 years

Meanwhile, outside--

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Meanwhile 40 years

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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4 years

Tomorrow morning, in honor of AWP, I am going to pretend I am having coffee at the Starbucks in the food court at O'Hare because my flight is delayed and NO WAY am I making my connection.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

Friends often ask me if Uruguay is a safe country to visit. No one shot six people at a parade here today. Or ever.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Season's Greetings--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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1 year

In France, where I was born, it already my birthday (even if it will not be here in Chile where I am now for 5 more hours). So, let the birthday celebration begin!

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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1 year

Meanwhile Lake Michigan

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3 years

@antoinewilson The visiting writing faculty at Iowa who said what my female character needed was for someone to beat the hell out of her and all my workshop classmates nodding l

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1 year

I think I may just learn another language instead of trying to master another social media platform--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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15 days

104 years ago today, the great Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño was born! My translation of her book Love Poems was published by @PittPoetry ! You can read one of her poems published in the @NewYorker here:

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3 years

Meanwhile, outside--

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2 years

In France, where I was born, it already my birthday. In Japan, where my daughter Magda lives, it is a good 8 hours into my birthday already and she just called wished me Happy Birthday! So, let the birthday celebration begin!

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3 years

The view from my office--

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3 years

I professored for 35 years. I can talk about so many topics for more than 30 minutes without further preparation, you do not want to see a list.

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6 months

I started drawing every day in 2020, when the pandemic hit. I'd never drawn before, not even as a child. Here's an early ones! Soon my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, with 250 pages of my drawings, will be published by @FieldmousePress ! I'm still pinching myself! @PineStatePub

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1 year

Meanwhile my blue house

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Ah, alas, I am sick. Headed for surgery in 2 weeks. Am not well enough to do my daily sketch lately. So, a flashback! Started drawing on lockdown in Montevideo, Uruguay. Never drew before but had a box of colored pencils & lots of time. Here is one of my first--

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1 year

Meanwhile light on water

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2 years

Playing my accordion—

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3 years

Okay, going to let this count as tomorrow's sketch. Going in for surgery at 9 am so probably going to be an artless day.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Writer, I am curious. How long does an acceptance make you happy? How long does a rejection make you sad?

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

Meanwhile in Dublin—

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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4 years

What is the best online class or workshop you've taken during the pandemic?

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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4 years

Anyone up for a Sunday twitter war about difference between metonymy and synecdoche?

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2 years

Meanwhile in Dublin—

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2 years

Meanwhile the river—

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10 months

Meanwhile in the art colony kitchen, the fridge is cherry red--

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5 months

On this day in 2020, locked down in Montevideo, Uruguay, I bought colored pencils! I asked friends, "Can I learn to draw or cartoon? Advice?" Now in 10 days pre-orders will be available for my graphic memoir French Girl which is being published by @FieldmousePress !

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3 months

Us, walking into another year

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1 year

Meanwhile two suns

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3 years

Meanwhile, outside--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

@chelseabwrites Happened to me--like every author. Also went to a reading by David Foster Wallace & it was me, two friends & a homeless woman wearing a sheet as a toga who took photos of him with an old flashcube camera. The librarian introducing him excused himself and did not stay. So, yeah.

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3 years

Ah Twitterverse! I am having a rough time right now. The world--well, you know. Tell me about a small tangible happiness in your life right now!

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2 years

Going to be off camping and seeing a play in the woods on my birthday tomorrow! Also enjoying a birthday root beer float! A tradition!

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3 years

Labyrinth made of discarded Christmas trees--

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2 years

My mother before she was anyone's mother--

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2 years

Meanwhile, in Uruguay--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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9 months

What I am proud of having done in 2023? Published 6 books. I keep saying it was because some books had pandemic delays but still--6 books. The first one in was my 6th poetry collection I WANT TO TELL YOU @PittPoetry

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7 months

Ah AWP poets, do I have to say it again? If everyone else sticks to their 5 minutes, do not read for 20 unless you love collecting lifelong enemies.

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2 years

Meanwhile I borrowed a cat--

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2 years

Sketch of the day--

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2 years

Think I just have to post this as my sketch the day--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

My memoir SPACE has a photo of me in my Easter dress (and bonnet) on the cover!

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11 months

At 91, the amazing Uruguayan poet Circe Maia has won the International Federico Garcia Lorca Poetry Prize for her life's work!f you want to read her work in English, check out my translation The Invisible Bridge from @PittPoetry !

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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4 years

Hands down my favorite Bernie meme--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Meanwhile, outside (the sun rising through my hospital room window). I am better! Just not quite where the doctors want me to be before they let me go home.Thanks for all the kind and healing words! It helped.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Okay--what is your very favorite brand/type/kind of pen? A friend just asked me about ordering some and was surprised I knew exactly. Is that a writer thing? A poet thing?

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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4 years

What's the oldest submission you still have sitting, neither rejected nor accepted, in Submittable? I'll start: I see I have one I submitted in 10/8/2018.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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7 months

Thanks to Wendy Lesser @3pennyreview , one of my long time favorite magazines, for nearly instantly taking the essay “Today is a Deaf Day” I wrote during my December residency @VCCA !

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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2 years

Meanwhile in Italy—

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1 year

Delighted to get an acceptance from @brevitymag ! Huge fan of the magazine & the always amazing Dinty Moore! Thanks to him for running this essay earlier--

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1 year

Meanwhile home

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1 year

So lovely to wake up to an acceptance of my graphic memoir piece/ comic "Birth Days" by the wonderful @adroitjournal !

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1 year

Okay--I'll play. "if you see this, drop a photo of you that looks like an album cover."

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

What is the writing news you received that made you the happiest?

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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7 months

How do you feel when you have to ask for blurbs, dear writers? Me--like I am in deep water and do not know how to swim. Any advice?

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Goodnight, Twitter--

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

When I was a kid if I was sick, my mother would give me ginger ale & saltines. If I was a little better, a soft cooked egg & toast. Did you have special healing childhood foods? Do you have go to foods now for when you do not feel well?

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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3 years

Back home from the hospital, back in the world--today's quick sketch of the day!

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3 years

@alexanderchee @AmishScientist

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

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1 year

Triple delighted today--Blackbird is out with an essay by me, "Sharp," an interview and two prose poems! Here is a link to a page with links to all the work. (And, as always, check out all the amazing people in this issue!)