FEBRUARY
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FEBRUARY SPIKENER
February Spikener (they/she) is a Black femme poet from Detroit. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from Randolph College. Spikener self-describes her work as “feral”: meaning, her work interrogates the domestic while reckoning with the violent underbelly of girlhood. Through poetry (and now hybrid work), her work embraces the carnal and violent qualities of feral animals while reimagining beasthood as well as daughterhood. Ever inspired by their loved ones, their poems reflect how they navigate through the world and what it means to love and be loved. She believes that love is and has always been the answer and that the mastery of love is a form of survival. In this mastery of love lives an unearthing of softness for her Blackgirl self. Her work has been featured in Black Warrior Review, Muzzle Magazine, Poet Lore, among others. Spikener is also a member of the multigenre, multimedia Basement Artist Collective. She lives in Chicago.
Publications
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Publications ♥︎
Hybrid Work
May 2025 “Polyamory”, Foglifter Journal (Print)
Poetry
June 2025 “The First Autopsy” + “Only Toni Morrison Understands What I Mean When I Say I’m Hungry”, Shō Journal No. 7 (Print)
October 2024 “Roach Poem”, Boyfriend Village of Black Warrior Review
August 2024 “the (dead)name speaks”, beestung
April 2024 “balm for my brother” + “utopia”, Muzzle Magazine
December 2022 “instead of a lullaby”, Poet Lore Magazine (Print)
March 2021 “eulogy for a fallen dove”, Shade Literary Arts
March 2021 “ode in which i hold time”, So To Speak Journal (Print)
November 2021 “underwater crown”, ANMLY
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Photo Credits: Chris Gaumer