Nikita Nelin

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Nikita Nelin was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the U.S in 1989. He has lived in Austria and Italy, and has traveled the U.S extensively. He received the Sean O’Faolain prize for short fiction, the Summer Literary Seminars prize for nonfiction, and the Dogwood Literary Prize in Nonfiction, as well as being chosen as a finalist for the Restless Books Immigrant prize and the Dzanc Books prize. His work has been published in print and online. Nikita has conducted research through the Harriman Institute as well as translation through Yale Press, and has written on the convergence between fringe and at-large cultural trends for the Hannah Arendt Center. He holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, is a 2019 Associate Fellow at The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, and is a member of the Southern Experience Collective.

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03/21/20 And the Dog says…

April 02, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

There’s a story about the man

who learned to fish.

Something about

dragging a thing

from the river,

wife at home

all rosy cheeks

preparing a salt rub

and a bushel of fiery moss…

What’s he doing today –

our atypical Jonah –

scrolling through options?

Walking a checkout isle

with disagreement about the margarine?

Rolling a blunt by the sea?

Fuck if I know.

I don’t know how to fish,

either.

All I’ve got is these squiggly lines,

who won’t entirely obey.

Oh shit!

I’m a shepherd dog

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