* Poet
* Editor of FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics
* Samuel Beckett scholar
* Multilingual and hopelessly overeducated
* Looking for gainful employment

http://fulcrumpoetry.com
http://www.myspace.com/nikolayev

Poetry, literature, philosophy, language(s), India, classical and nonpop and Indian classical music

Poetry, literature, philosophy, language(s), India, classical and nonpop and Indian classical music

Favorite current painter -- Samuel Gareginyan:
http://www.samuelg.com

Blurbs from my poetry collection, Letters from Aldenderry:

Philip Nikolayev's new collection is magnificent... Like Nabokov, he opens up English to its own alienation... There are splendid poems here, as rich and robust and lyrical as anything being written in America today.--JAMES WOOD

This is a truly exciting collection of lyrics, as surprising and varied as it is original.--MARJORIE PERLOFF

The electricity of Nikolayev's poetic intelligence is such that, although with the distinctive mark of poetry that was written to please nobody but himself, everywhere his poetry seems to speak right out to the reader.--JACKET MAGAZINE

View LETTERS FROM ALDENDERRY at
http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844712796.htm