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Home » M.A. Istvan Jr.

M.A. Istvan Jr.

M.A. ISTVAN JR., PhD, born and raised in a functioning ghost town (now turned hipster haven), has a gift for sensing the vibrational frequencies—the earth spirits, if you will—of even the densest flesh: tree, stone, mineral. Acertified (but failed) forest-bathing therapist, Istvan writes best—bestial—faded into the backgrounds of brothels, tended to by the ladies for whom his focused presence proves that men can want—can be—something more. Most people stay out of Istvan’s vicinity. His hurried step, fierce expression, and wild hand gestures while speaking (speaking in what is perhaps best described as auditory cursive) set off the insanity-detectors ingrained in us by deep history.

On a Certain Sort of On and On
by M.A. Istvan Jr.

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: M.A. Istvan Jr.

Whether immortality from here on would be acceptable depends on the person. But whether one would accept such immortality—that is a better tool for detecting scorn for life than whether one would accept Nietzsche’s eternal return of the same.—     1   Most would embrace the power to keep animated for centuries, say, by […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: January 1, 2018

Contributor Bios for Issue 12 Winter 2018

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Amy Sawyer, Bilal Shaw, Brian Kamsoke, Brian Satrom, C. Kubasta, Clarisse Francillon, Darren Demaree, David Bowen, David Macey, Devon Balwit, Divya Rajan, Donna Pucciani, Eric Shonkwiler, Erinn Seifert, Evan Baden, Ghalib, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Hedy Habra, Ian Haight, J. Kates, James Brunton, Jesse DeLong, Jesse Tangen-Mills, José Daniel García, Julian Cola, Karl-Heinz Ott, Kevin J.B. O'Connor, Leonard Kress, Liz Egan, M.A. Istvan Jr., Malcolm Cumming, Martial, Martyna Buliżańska, Matthew Guenette, Michelle Bailat-Jones, Mollie Boutell, Nicholas Manning, Nick Conrad, Pamela Miller, Peter Burzynski, Peter Woltemade, Robert Cowan, Robert Joe Stout, Robert Nazarene, Rush Rankin, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ballouk, Stephen Gibson, Tatiana Neshumova, Todd Osborne, Tony Barnstone

Issue 12 Winter 2018 RUTH AWAD is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection, Set to Music a Wildfire, won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in New Republic, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Sixth […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 12 Winter 2018

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Amy Sawyer, Bilal Shaw, Brian Kamsoke, Brian Satrom, C. Kubasta, Clarisse Francillon, Darren Demaree, David Bowen, David Macey, Devon Balwit, Divya Rajan, Donna Pucciani, Eric Shonkwiler, Erinn Seifert, Evan Baden, Ghalib, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Hedy Habra, Ian Haight, J. Kates, James Brunton, Jesse DeLong, Jesse Tangen-Mills, José Daniel García, Julian Cola, Karl-Heinz Ott, Kevin J.B. O'Connor, Leonard Kress, Liz Egan, M.A. Istvan Jr., Malcolm Cumming, Martial, Martyna Buliżańska, Matthew Guenette, Michelle Bailat-Jones, Mollie Boutell, Nicholas Manning, Nick Conrad, Pamela Miller, Peter Burzynski, Peter Woltemade, Robert Cowan, Robert Joe Stout, Robert Nazarene, Rush Rankin, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ballouk, Stephen Gibson, Tatiana Neshumova, Todd Osborne, Tony Barnstone

INTERVIEWS Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen Power & Light Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout Invisible on Paper ESSAYS Leonard Kress What Kind of Parent Lets a Thirteen-Year-Old Cancel Her Bat Mitzvah? Erinn Seifert Changing FICTION Mollie Boutell Intimates Malcolm Cumming Mere Anarchy Liz Egan Sgt. Lawson Brian Kamsoke Useful Things POETRY Ruth […]

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