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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04/08/20 Why is Tonight Different From Every Other Night?

April 08, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

Why is tonight

different from every other night?

Because we now barter

by the politics of longing?

Why is tonight

different from every other night?

Because someone tore up the history book

and another emergency is coming.

Why is tonight

different from every other night?

Because no one taught me

how to plead for peace.

Why is tonight

Different from every other night?

Because the world sleeps in a pod by the sea,

and it opens

ever so slightly

to receive the rain,

and a voice can be heard in the surf;

it says,

“if you are to cross,

you must all do it together,

otherwise you will always be

preparing a bag

to flee.”

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