Poems translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jesse Lee Kercheval is a writer and translator, specializing in Uruguayan poetry. Her translations include Love Poems by Idea Vilariño, which was long listed for the 2020 PEN Best Translated Poetry Book Award, and The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems Circe Maia, for which she awarded an NEA in Translation, both from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

  • Poems from Mariella Nigro’s Memory Rewritten and interview by Mihaela Moscaliuc with translators Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas

    Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas in conversation with Mihaela Moscaliuc   Mihaela Moscaliuc: I am excited we are…

    Issue #141 May 2023
  • Two poems by Silvia Guerra, translated from Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas

    Pray gather me, Anemone