While we were at our local post office trying to get our
mailbox key (attempt failed), Monsieur Bang Bang picked up a catalog of
collectors stamps available now. He was looking to see what the Georgia
O’Keeffe stamp looked like in the American Modernists set. He pointed out that
many of the modernists included in the set were from O’Keeffe’s modernist
circle of friends (although she never gets credit for being a modernist).
On page 20 of the catalog, I found there was a collection of
Twentieth-Century Poets. It’s on the same page as the O’Henry stamp and the
Bugs Life stamp. A fantastic juxtaposition. Anyway, the poets included
are not necessarily American-born and include in this order:
- Joseph Brodsky
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- William Carlos Williams
- Robert Hayden
- Sylvia Plath
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Wallace Stevens
- Denise Levertov
- E.E. Cummings
- Theodore Rothke
From the post office you can buy the stamps themselves in a
panel, or purchaser a ceremony program, a notecard set or a commemorative
panel poster: https://store.usps.com/store/browse/uspsProductDetailMultiSkuDropDown.jsp?productId=S_468808&categoryId=subcatS_S_Commemorative
Something nice to frame for your office wall.
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