Katherine and Dylan Seitel live in New Orleans after growing up in and around Philadelphia. These are their first published poems. They grew up memorizing morbid Emily Dickinson poems (they were both sure "I'm nobody! Who are you?" was a nursery rhyme until middle school) and bouncing between Irish-Catholicism, Quakerism and Atheist-Marxist Judaism. As adults they exchange poems back and forth, and hold running conversations about them, helping each other with editing and affirmation. They are pretty excited about this whole business.
Dylan and Katherine are a brother and sister who discovered they had independently written different poems on the same topic. After The Men Are Dead Katherine Seitel After the men are dead the women find comfort in one another. Margaret’s went first. He had a bad heart and died young, just 40-years-old. He built, lovingly, a doghouse in the backyard and left four child sized noses, sniffling, and two adult female hands, wringing in grief…
