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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 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. Her work has been supported by the McCormack Writing Center, Sundress Academy of the Arts, The Watering Hole, and the Stories Matter Foundation, and has been featured in Black Warrior Review, Muzzle Magazine, Poet Lore, among others. Spikener is also a member of the multimedia Basement Artists Collective. She lives in Chicago.
Publications
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Publications ♥︎
Nonfiction
April 2026 “Horsepower”, swamp pink
May 2025 “Polyamory”, Foglifter Journal (Print)
Poetry
May 2026 “A Hot Thing”, Torch Literary Arts
May 2026 “I Hope To Wake Up Happy Someday”, Digging Press Journal
February 2026 “Don’t Nobody Piss Me Off Better Than Myself”, swamp pink
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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