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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04/07/20 Rules for Writing a Manifesto

April 07, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

What if I run out of words?

My last few assumptions of you

frayed at the ends,

neglected by the absence of contact.

I mean,

nature is beautiful –

the quiet has secrets to tell us,

but who are you?

Even the news has fallen predictable and dull; politics,

a rehashing of the same seven stories

from literature.

Maybe I’ll dig a whole then,

plan a garden,

water my garage,

order a joystick on line

and try to play with the moon.

I know, everything is nonsense

without a proper enemy;

words are tension,

fiction,

heat;

every manifesto

is just an attempt at a fire

and the laughter

of a wily wind.

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