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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03/27/20 The Source

April 02, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

Poetry is dangerous

it will make you walk backwards to the source

with a dozen memories on your back

scratching for another way in.

“Wait,

until the road is clear;”

“send a scout;”

“pray like there’s a miracle coming;”

“maybe,

when you’re old and wise,

you’ll receive an official invitation,

why offer everything to an invisible cause?”

-- the ministers suggest.

The past is scrupulous like that,

is sells a thousand reasons,

but not a single purpose to be found

that’s worth the sound

your feet make on the sand

to that which waits to meet us

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