Logan February

Logan February(born April 23, 1999) is a Nigerian poet, essayist, music reviewer, singer, songwriter, and LGBTQ activist. Quotes In that terrible heat, we made our feast. The oil golden with spices, the skillet’s wicked, dissolving whisper reminding us of every old burn. Savor of warm flesh. Umami. It was very good. From your fingers, the salt was a blessing. I had to take my shirt off. To take the paring knife from your hand. I wished we had Bordeaux. We were trapped in a kind of silence. When the song ended, it started to play again. Lagoon February talks about husband is the loveliest word My heart is a place with no native tongue. You left me asleep on the couch, and I thought by dawn I’d sneak in beside your soul. But a blessed light came disrupting the blind- fold and blinds, and instead I woke you with Wagner. I started poetry as a reader, firstly, and a reader of everything. I loved stories, but I felt like the things that I was working through were not narrative. They were experiential, and poetry became a way of articulating them, and also a private language for myself that I could lament in, or dream in, or anything like that. LF talks about how he came to write poetry. Language is a curious thing to me, especially on the subjective plane. There is the language that we speak, and there is the language we make ethics out of. Our words mean things and so on, but then from a psychological perspective, there is this nervousness in, not what the word means, but what a person means when they make an utterance. LF in an interview Birth and death, beginning and ending, are very potent concepts. Both are doors into or from the unknown: the beginning of life, the end of life, what is life? Freedom. Beauty. Transcendence. He talks about the vision for the black body "I started out compelled to tell my own story, but with Mannequin in the Nude, I had to step back and paint the self-portrait minus the self." Reflecting on the inspiration behind Mannequin in the Nude "It was most important to me to tell the story of the Other." Speaking on identity and storytelling "There is a multiplicity of thought that results in a lot of projection in my poems, where I am able to view myself from varying perspectives." On perspective in poetry "It probably comes from existing outside the gender binary and on the bipolar spectrum, just never having both feet on the same side." Reflecting on identity and creativity "The book is an interface for the soul." Speaking on literature and self-expression "I think of books as places where the soul can encounter itself." On the significance of books External links