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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04/02/20 MA

April 02, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

Who tries to hear the waves,

a battered sea,

the creaking of a talentless brass band

embracing music –

when there is work to do,

people to see;

however many of you doubt,

I have no plan of losing.

Who waists another morning in disguise,

lazily dreaming –

I forge ahead

and forgive your careless lies,

eyes only barely seeing;

there is a plan

I know,

which I had long ago

accepted choosing,

and you

my friends

one day will understand

that I was a fighter

when you

had only thought

life was amusing

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