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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03/29/20 The Cat Has Something to Say

April 02, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

If the rain doesn’t stop

I’ll have to stay home,

bake a bread of two,

tell my cat we’ve had to postpone Easter –

he won’t care

but I like telling him things

like there’s a decision to be made

and we’re voting,

you know…

it’s like democracy;

a malnourished lineup

of yes or no options

on the other side of which

is an animal

that sleeps sixteen hours a day,

just wants its dinner

and will say nothing in return.

Ooooooo, the sun just came out;

ignore all I’ve written;

here, hold my pen

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