Sharon Olds reads with the Dickman twins this Thursday. Sharon Olds is the author of nine books of poetry including The Dead & the Living, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book is One Secret Thing. Matthew Dickman is the author of All American Poem, which won the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry.  Michael Dickman’s first book of poems, End of the West, was published in 2009. 
Apparently they are all somehow related. I would like to be in that family. I bet they write the best birthday cards.

March 4, 2010, 7 p.m.  Free and open to the public.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, New York, NY

This week’s New Yorker features an article on the Dickman brothers, Matthew and Michael. The Portland, Oregon natives are twin poets with different styles that draw from the same shared experience. Plus, they’re cute. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)  We were lucky enough to have  Matthew contribute to Issue No. 2 and do a special Dossier reading event for us from his book, All American Poem. Michael’s equally amazing book is The End of The West. You should order them both. My guess is that we might be seeing more of these fellas around. Chin Chin.

Some random facts- If you google: “Portland Twins” the Dickman bros come up first. According to a recent study, vegan mothers are five times less likely to have twins than those who eat animal products. That means no twin poets for me.

Photo by Jeff Minton for The New Yorker