Kevin Grauke

I published this poem about the cover of Tapestry in The Threepenny Review a few years ago.

Wow

This week our summer flash series brings you "When Cain Spoke to Abel in the Field" by Kevin Grauke necessaryfiction.com/stories/when...

Love hearing this. Much needed.

I'm shocked by this. What the hell are people doing instead?

Crazy good

That song, which is great, just keeps getting more true.

Updated submissions guidelines means advertising about it on socials, despite my sincere desire not to have to do so. Trying to be quieter these days, but it’s hard to do that with something like Libre. We’re able to offer $15 per accepted piece. Thanks for thinking of us.

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NEW POEM #243: "The Truth About Brimstone" by Kevin Grauke (@kevingrauke.bsky.social)

"And so here I am, back where this all started, staring at this thick, red-headed toothpick, / thinking of you laughing down there in Hell"

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Paul Robeson sang at Madison Square Garden on the day my mother was born in West Texas. I learned this from a biography of Ethel Rosenberg, who was strapped to a chair in Ossining ten years later and filled with electricity. Her heart still beat after three shots but not four. Smoke rose from her head as if from a puffed candle. They’d chosen her to go first that night, hoping love’s valor would break truths from her husband, but Julius, he said nothing. And for him, one shot was plenty.

"Mother played “John Brown’s Body” on their cheap turntable. I loved how deep his voice was, how it vibrated dust from the speakers."

A poem by 𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗸𝗲 @kevingrauke.bsky.social‬ in the Spring 2025 issue

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Amazing story

Thanks so much, @aaronburch.bsky.social.

Adage — Susurrus

"'We’re God-fearing folk! Tell us! We’ll never do it again!' Anxious, sodden, submissive, they waited for a reply. It came as thunder. Thunder, and thunder. And the rain came down like nails."

“Adage" by @kevingrauke.bsky.social

A graphic featuring a Twitter post with a light orange background, showcasing a motivational quote about resilience and overcoming challenges, accompanied by a minimalist design and a simple border.

reading today's cento from Stephanie Choi in the thick of wrapping up my semester definitely felt like a little extra perfect, but rereading it this morning, I still extra love it and think it's so perfect

https://www.havehashad.com/rpyxt

"My sexual orientation is Tracy Chapman’s voice.
Everything I knew about gender
unraveled the day I heard her
sing about addiction."

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 today from Amara Tiebout

almost wish it were short enough to screenshot. y'all REALLY gotta click through!!

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Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.

i like how roberts even looks a bit like tim robinson in the hot dog sketch www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

The Young & the Restless by Ryan Petersen My mother would get home from her job as a middle school nurse, turn on the TV, and watch her favorite daytime soap from the DVR. I’d be at the kitchen island, eating my Lean Cuisine chicken tikka and…

new one today from Ryan Petersen and it spirals in the best way

“a still frame of the soap opera, projected into the past… indisputable evidence: I was, indeed, a prophet.”

https://www.havehashad.com/o1v45

"She hoped maybe one day she’d lose them with her wisdom teeth."

I love everything about this story by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social

Fresh poetry today by @kevingrauke.bsky.social There’s elegance to the questioning.

“But most of the time / it’s nothing like any of this.”

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Thank you, @amsterdamreview.bsky.social, for taking this. I'm proud to be in a such fine issue.

Paul Robeson Sang at Madison Square Garden by Kevin Grauke | Amsterdam Review Read "Paul Robeson Sang at Madison Square Garden" by Kevin Grauke

I haven't felt like sharing any new work since Trump's reelection because it seems too much like playing Nero's fiddle, but I'm sharing this one. We need Paul Robeson and Lady Day more than ever now.

I will get there too late, but I don’t know this yet, nor do I know I’ll never see the hospital bed, or the chair beside the bed, the chair where my sister sits, keeping a constant hand on him, skin whispering to skin. —"Nonstop Flight" @kevingrauke.bsky.social

www.fiveminutelit.com/nonstop-flight

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

You’re quoting some of my favorite lines of all time here

We're blessed to have Wendell Berry among us.

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?

from "Questionnaire " by Wendell Berry

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Great album

Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil Former president is charged by attorney general following police report that accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power.

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

How timely! My cat just elonmusked in the litterbox.