@KevinGrauke

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

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IF YOU VOTE LEGALLY, HE’S GOING TO JAIL #BlueWave2024
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Alex Cole
@acnewsitics4 Nov 2024
Everyone should watch this. VOTE!

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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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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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Narrator: But Philly was not MAGA country — in fact it ended Trump’s presidency.
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The Woolf@thewoolfx20 May 2024
'...I sang to you with such pristine sincerity that the old me, so cynical and single, would have blanched...' Music as a timekeeper, music as a shot to the heart - here's new #creativenonfiction from @kevingrauke in Issue 6 thewoolfx.com/do-you-realize…

Do You Realize? by Kevin Grauke | The Woolf

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The Woolf@thewoolfx12 May 2024
The Music issue is live! New work from @amandamconover @thewakingtulip @JackieGoyette78 @kevingrauke @nollthere @TerryTierney14 & Anna Fernandes, Danielle McMahon, Guy Biederman, James Kangas, Lauren Tivey, Mary Rohrer-Dann, Sher Schwartz & Tinamarie Cox thewoolfx.com/
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“We should be kind / while there is still time.”
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The Jazz Estate@thejazzestate29 Apr 2024
Duke Ellington on dreaming.
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A poem to keep in mind over the next few weeks and months. 🌿🌸🌿 'Instructions on Not Giving Up' by Ada Limón (@adalimon)
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9. When our evolutionary ancestors first began farming, our jaws realigned to better suit the new diet. A 2019 study suggested this could have made it easier for our upper teeth and lower lip to touch—and so may have added “f” and “v” sounds to our language for the first time.
A side profile of an anthropological display of a skull

ALT A side profile of an anthropological display of a skull

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KEVIN PRUFER (@Prufer_Kevin), from THE FEARS 🌙 : bit.ly/3NdfnUt
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Chuck Reece@chuckreece6 Feb 2024
Replying to @salvationsouth1
@salvationsouth1 keeps attracting great fiction. You’d do well to give your lunch break to this new piece from @KevinGrauke. When it ended, my reaction was, “Whoa!” salvationsouth.com/every-sto…
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National Hedgehog day today, so we've heard.
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“a return / to the strange idea of continuous living despite / the mess of us, the hurt, the empty” — Ada Limón, from Instructions on Not Giving Up
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón

ALT Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón

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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp23 Jan 2024
"At no time in the past quarter century has there been such a rapid divergence between the views of young men and women."
Daniel Cox
@dcoxpolls23 Jan 2024
This is a piece I've spent a lot of time working on. I think it's important. I hope you read it. Thank you @grace_degraaf for helping whip it into shape. businessinsider.com/gen-z-ge…

Gen Z's gender divide is huge — and unexpected

Gen Z women are becoming more liberal, while Gen Z men are drifting to the right. Now, they don't agree on anything.

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Nothing says ban assault rifles like 5 school officers, 8 federal DEA officers, 13 U.S. Marshals, 16 sheriff’s deputies, 25 Uvalde officers, 69 officers of nearby law enforcement, 91 state police officers plus 149 U.S. Border Patrol agents being scared of 1 shooter with an AR-15.
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