This post compiled with info from delawareonline.com and WHYY’s newsworks.org…
Delaware Arts Info is happy to celebrate spoken-word artists Al Mills and Nnamdi Chukwuocha — known regionally as The Twin Poets — as the First State’s new Poets Laureate. As Delaware’s 17th ambassadors of poetry, they are also the first to share the honorary title.
The 45-year-old identical twin brothers have been writing since they were children. Their prose have been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and NPR’s Poetic License, and the pair has won numerous awards and toured nationally and internationally as part of their craft.
The duo were sworn in to their new appointments by Governor Jack Markell in a December 16 ceremony at the Delaware Art Museum. “You have got something to say that I think people need to hear,” Markell said during the event. “People from all walks of life, who may not have ever come together otherwise, are going to hear this message.”
Both men are social workers, and Chukwuocha is a Wilmington city councilman. Their father was community leader William “Hicks” Anderson, for whom the center on Madison Street is named.