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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04/30/20 Workshop 2

May 04, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

The hunker down played coy in the beginning,

expecting an hand-drawn invitation,

but New York is sad now,

like a fat worm

wrapped around am emaciated light pole,

so why are my feet

as solid as the earth,

which says nothing

about the weather,

or anything else

really –

just mush

in a sandlot,

all these lonely eyes wanting to play,

truce or not,

and you,

my friend,

so full

of lost conversations

and other dead things,

that will grow, die,

decompose,

grow,

die,

and decompose again,

whenever we

decide,

this voyage

is over

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