@KevinGrauke

Author of SHADOWS OF MEN. Forthcoming: YONDERITES, Fall 2024 (@bullshitlit); WEST OF DESTRY, 2025 (@CowboyJamboree); BULLIES & COWARDS, 2026 (@CornerstoneUWSP)

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My beautiful collection of 29 tiny Texas tales from @bullshitlit is finally out in the world! If you pre-ordered a copy (thanks so much!), it should be getting to you soon. If you haven't ordered a copy yet, there's a link below. Thanks for the great job, @vabnt!
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Very happy to be a part of the most recent @iambapoet wave.
iamb ~ poetry seen and heard@iamb_uk17 Dec 2024
'I pressed my palms to the sun-shot sidewalk, dirtying them in the unicorn dust of her hopscotch chalk. Frightened but grateful, I flew home fast to warn Mommy, my pink hands aflame with a May day’s false prophecy.' iambapoet.com/wave/20-kevin-…

Kevin Grauke | wave 20 | winter 2024 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

Hear poet Kevin Grauke read poems for wave 20 of literary poetry journal iamb.

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Excited to be a part of this. Thank you, @MarkAntonyOwen!
iamb ~ poetry seen and heard@iamb_uk1 Dec 2024
Everyone, meet wave twenty: @DaraghFleming, @dionoreilly, @GrahamClifford1, @workingwords50, @KevinGrauke, Laura Lewis-Waters, @mishiepoet, @fierydes, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, @rowanlyster, @sharoncowling, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and special guest poet @wondykitten.
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Very excited to have an essay about Jerry Jeff Walker in this collection coming out. Can't wait to read the rest of it, too.
Cowboy Jamboree Press@CowboyJamboree22 Nov 2024
Final type is done and dusted. This is a blow-the-barn-doors-off kinda collection. TEXAS WIND is blowin ya'll's way Tuesday from CJ Press.
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IF YOU VOTE LEGALLY, HE’S GOING TO JAIL #BlueWave2024
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Everyone should watch this. VOTE!

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Excited to have an essay on Jerry Jeff Walker in this. Can't wait to read the whole thing.
Cowboy Jamboree Press@CowboyJamboree17 Oct 2024
Blowin your way this fall...
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YONDERITES (paperback) — BULLSHIT LIT

Kevin Grauke’s collection of short stories set in the made-up town of Yonder, Texas, “YONDERITES.” June/July 2024. ~90 pages.

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YONDERITES (paperback) — BULLSHIT LIT

Kevin Grauke’s collection of short stories set in the made-up town of Yonder, Texas, “YONDERITES.” June/July 2024. ~90 pages.

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Very grateful to @TinyMolecules for publishing this short autumnal essay of mine. tinymolecules.com/leaf-games

Leaf Games — Tiny Molecules

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Coming this Friday, a new Observations piece by @KevinGrauke
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The suspected gunman is believed to be a 14-year-old boy. Only in America are gunmen actually boys. cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/winder…

14-year-old student suspect in Georgia school shooting that left 4 dead will be booked tonight,...

The 14-year-old suspect in the fatal mass shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school will be booked Wednesday night, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at an evening news...

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“you have your eye on a small / elusive detail, pursuing its music, when a terrible truth / strikes” — Eamon Grennan . . . This poem appeared in Still Life with Waterfall: Poems by Eamon Grennan, published by Graywolf Press, 2002. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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BULLSHIT LIT@bullshitlit27 Aug 2024
"What if Sherwood Anderson had been born a century later, in small-town Texas instead of Ohio, raised on Lone Star beer and The Last Picture Show?" that's YONDERITES, @KevinGrauke's collection of short stories. it's really fucking good, and it's FINALLY at the printer!! link ⬇️
cover spread of YONDERITES by Kevin Grauke [read blurbs @ bullshitlit.com/shop/p/yonderites]

ALT cover spread of YONDERITES by Kevin Grauke [read blurbs @ bullshitlit.com/shop/p/yonderites]

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THIS IS TONIGHT, PHILADELPHIA!!!
come celebrate the release of bullshit lit’s third anthology on thursday, august 22 in the basement of the first unitarian church (2125 chestnut st., phila., pa). doors at 7, show at 8. rapid-fire readings from eighteen writers, plus live music from the bullshit house band & books for sale. tickets $5-15 (n.o.t.a.f.l.o.f.). ft. giulia alvarez-katz, aleikza m. diaz, claire fennell, adam gianforcaro, medina keita, audrey lee, alison lubar, alexandra naughton, caroline ganci patterson, knox peters, john pinto, matthew ramirez, natalie raskin, nat raum, abigail swoboda, audrey zee whitesides, tommy wyatt, & olivia zarzycki. hosted by veronica bennett.

ALT come celebrate the release of bullshit lit’s third anthology on thursday, august 22 in the basement of the first unitarian church (2125 chestnut st., phila., pa). doors at 7, show at 8. rapid-fire readings from eighteen writers, plus live music from the bullshit house band & books for sale. tickets $5-15 (n.o.t.a.f.l.o.f.). ft. giulia alvarez-katz, aleikza m. diaz, claire fennell, adam gianforcaro, medina keita, audrey lee, alison lubar, alexandra naughton, caroline ganci patterson, knox peters, john pinto, matthew ramirez, natalie raskin, nat raum, abigail swoboda, audrey zee whitesides, tommy wyatt, & olivia zarzycki. hosted by veronica bennett.

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Happy to have this very American essay come out right before the 4th of July. I'm grateful to @litmagazine for publishing it. I hope you'll read it. litmagazine.org/baseball-hot…
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Narrator: But Philly was not MAGA country — in fact it ended Trump’s presidency.
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An essay I wrote about Bogart, Morrissey, and depression when I was in college. themuseumofamericana.net/the…

The Summers of Bogie and Moz—Nonfiction by Kevin Grauke

Watched The Big Sleep with Bogart & Bacall starring. Is there a reason to live besides no reason to die? — journal entry from June 5, 1989 Between his breakout in The Petrified Forest in 1936 a…

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Thank you, @museumofamerica, for publishing it.
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