Mental Voodoo (Translated by Christian Filips with Peter Dietze)
- bilingual collection of poems in German translation
- 2024
- Engeler Verlage/Poesie Dekolonie (Schupfart, Switzerland)
Chongos (Translated by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg)
- selected poems in Spanish-only translation
- afterword by Mariana Spada
- 2022
- Como Un Lugar (Buenos Aires, Argentina/Brooklyn, NY, USA)
- with a free digital edition
Fuckboys (Translated by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg)
- bilingual selection of poems in Spanish translation
- foreword by Mariana Spada
- 2021
- Kriller71 Ediciones (Barcelona, Spain)
In The Nude
- debut full-length poetry collection
- 2019
- Ouida Poetry (Lagos, Nigeria)
Praise for In The Nude
“This stunning collection resides at the intersection between the sacred and the sexual, which is always about departure and longing, sometimes pain. The verse is plump with pop culture and precision, toggling self-harm with self-care, as it gorgeously weaves through Yorùbá culture. Here are brown boys and the repetition of bodies wrapped in violence, but also rapt in delight.”
— Tiana Clark, author of I Can’t Talk About The Trees Without The Blood
“Logan February’s In The Nude offers courage, adventurous craftsmanship, fresh resonances with regard to urbanity and love. February’s work is as much about personality as it is about psychic peregrinations. This poet’s inner barometer gives nod to gender fluidity, a prescient invocation of heritage, emotion and physicality. We must believe the voice here that says “My scars are wide enough for a whole / generation to share.”
— Uche Nduka, author of Living in Public
“Bold and fiercely defiant worship of the black queer body. Edgy and vibrant. This is layered and deeply conceptual poetry with confessional intones and fatalistic intents.”
— Dami Ajayi, author of A Woman’s Body is a Country
Garlands
- poetry e-book; digital microchapbook
- 2019
- Ghost City Press (Syracuse, NY, USA)
Praise for Garlands
“In these vibrant, luscious poems, Logan February—a young and wildly talented poet—builds up an understanding of how love lets people share grief as well as joy, satisfaction alongside pain. You may recognize, in the world of Garlands, lurking dangers and hurts, but you’ll also find abundance and an unmistakable tenderness. These are poems in glorious bloom!”
— Heather Christle, author of The Crying Book
“Logan February’s Garlands aches in its intimacy, in its dreamscapes, in its concern with the minutiae of a life lived in love. Its images luxuriate, its verbs excite—crisp and sweet as the apples scattered about these poems like jewels.”
— Safia Elhillo, author of The January Children
Mannequin in The Nude
- (out of print)
- 2019
- PANK Books (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Painted Blue with Saltwater
- poetry chapbook
- 2018
- Indolent Books (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Praise for Painted Blue with Saltwater
“It is so refreshing to discover a poet as rapturously rich with magic as Logan February. In Painted Blue with Saltwater, the poet swims with sea monsters, becomes a feather, becomes a window, becomes a safe house by the sea. This is the great pleasure of Logan’s poetry—whatever lamentable situation the speaker finds himself in, there is always a way to shapeshift back toward the light: “Because I am / void & because I am vast & because / I am ocean.” What welcome gifts, these gorgeous poems.”
— Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf
“Saltwater, ghost-filled air, the fires of becoming a young queer man, and the dirt, the dirt of searching for home, for a name, and another name. Logan February’s Painted Blue with Saltwater feels at once ancient/elemental and utterly new/refusing to order the world in the same or any manner. This collection bends and stretches lyric language to show us how “a house is a box of doors, / of openings, of wounds,” how the family’s house is far from a heaven where “they have heterosexual sons & / perfectly grilled fish.” Logan February’s speaker is both drawn to and skeptical of what this world has given him. He wants “to talk to shovels / and ask them to be gentle.” He wants to know “do knives know what they are used for.” This is a collection that will inhabit your bones and rearrange your sky.”
— Chen Chen, author of When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List of Further Possibilities
“The magic in Logan February’s Painted Blue with Saltwater manifests from a needed eagerness. Sketches of boyhood & body cannot be negotiated without a level of antagonism & February’s collection does so beautifully. It’s the world that Painted Blue creates—filled with wings & air & ghosts & dust—that transmits the delicate yet heartening sentiment key to the work. February’s voice is salient & sweet; carving out much-needed space for young Black queer poets.”
— Jayy Dodd, author of Mannish Tongues
“Painted Blue with Saltwater is, if nothing else, a self-portrait. It is opening a box of trinkets and knowing who the owner is based on what you find. It is running your finger across a canvas and feeling the thick chunks of paint, imagining exactly how the artist moved their brush. February balances precision and thoughtful curation with a breathtaking transparency, from which we learn that to be vulnerable is to be strong. These poems are stunning. Read this book and then read it again.”
— Olivia Gatwood, author of New American Best Friend
How to Cook a Ghost
- poetry chapbook
- 2017
- Glass Poetry Press (Toledo, OH, USA)
Praise for How To Cook A Ghost
“What Logan February has done in How To Cook A Ghost is taken food, a pleasure, and seasoned it with a visceral emotion that rings throughout this ode to love, loss and living through both in equal measure. I walk away from this marvelous work feeling as if I am full, and yet still hungry for whatever might come next.”
“With a meticulous tenderness, February has conjured up a collection of poems that explore love, loss, consumption, queerness, race & weaves them together in this glorious & haunted cookbook. The poems glow with longing & they smell like an old lover’s favorite dish. You will be picking February’s words out of your mouth, your pillow, your dinner, your heart, long after you read them.”
“‘If you do not let it go, / it will burn your hands,’ February warns in How to Cook a Ghost, a stunning investigation into a world of grief, temptation, and loss. This set of instructions for how to live with the living ghosts that haunt us, most importantly, begs the reader to take a look inward, to ask of oneself, “Why do you fill yourself / with the very things that / will not stay inside of you.” The wisdom buried in these poems is unearthed with each reading. And for this guidance, this exploration, I am grateful to Logan February.”
“Logan February’s How to Cook a Ghost is an offering, hurried past you on a silver plate at the kind of banquet you attend only when it’s dark and we are being honest. The poems tantalize with instruction, introspection, and invocation: “Retribution, like lemonade, is easy” promises one; “Turn up the heat. If your conscience / starts to act up, / throw it in the oven” another. A must for those who like their poetry potent, and who know that the best bites are meant to be shared.”