hive Being: M. A. Istvan Jr.'s Academic and Creative Writing

hive Being: M. A. Istvan Jr.'s Academic and Creative Writing

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Chihuahua
Let’s workshop this poem about how, even if we vomit seeing the new-norm of halfling humans bred by diseased socio-environmental factors, those humans…
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Pushups on Water
Let’s workshop this poem that is by no means meant to be a mockery of the miracle workings of our savior Christ--let alone to suggest that his mother…
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As if Goethe Once Ate Up a Black Queen’s Mic Time
Let’s workshop this poem about how relieving it is to have a socially-sanctioned umbrella excuse to get out of doing burpees and eating broccoli (and so…
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MADE FOR YOU AND ME 2: hive Being (Stanzas 2017—part 56)
Let's workshop this stanza sequence about starlight, execution, intimacy, the limited power of words, feminism, determinism, Afrocentrism, religion…
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MADE FOR YOU AND ME 2: hive Being (Stanzas 2017—part 55)
Let's workshop this stanza sequence about the ancientness of rap battles, Pindar, writing, painting, sculpting, hotel doormen, drug withdrawal, juries…
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True Crime in a Clown World
Let’s workshop this poem about the scoliotic moral sensibilities of our safe-space era, where even true-crime hosts must honor not only indigenous lands…
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Summer Communion
Let’s workshop this poem that invites you to move through your summer with primal mindfulness, feeling in the very moment how your acts—grooming…
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Tartan Scarves, the New Klan Hood
Let's workshop this poem about the dangers that so-called "allies" and "progressives" pose to black excellence and even black survival with their…
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Dandelion
Let's workshop this poem about the glyphosate solution to when those who pry open possibility end up becoming just another arm of tyranny against…
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Logical Palsy or Will to Power? (ROUND 2)
Let’s workshop this poem THAT I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED
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Action Jackson
Let’s workshop this poem about a natural but revolting incident on an urban subway, an incident that commuters ignore for selfish reasons: olfactory…
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June 2025

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