he post office -- and purchase -- a set of first-class postage stamps featuring first-class 20th-century American poets: Brodsky, Brooks, Williams, Hayden, Plath, Bishop, Stevens, Levertov, Cummings and Roethke. Seems like some of them were here just yesterday -- like Denise Levertov -- and I'd rather give that space to Howard Nemerov, whose poetry I like better -- but it's a fine gallery to start with. It's a sheet of 20 but features only 10 poets. Here's the Sylvia Plath stamp we have all been waiting for. Read or re-read the early works of Gwendolyn Brooks: wonderfully gymnastic, mind-bendingly original formal poetry. Of this entire group Brooks is the most underrated.
Delighted to see at the post office -- and purchase -- a set of first-class postage stamps featuring first-class 20th-century American poets: Brodsky, Brooks, Williams, Hayden, Plath, Bishop, Stevens, Levertov, Cummings and Roethke. Seems like some of them were here just yesterday -- like Denise Levertov -- and I'd rather give that space to Howard Nemerov, whose poetry I like better -- but it's a fine gallery to start with. It's a sheet of 20 but features only 10 poets. Here's the Sylvia Plath stamp we have all been waiting for. Read or re-read the early works of Gwendolyn Brooks: wonderfully gymnastic, mind-bendingly original formal poetry. Of this entire group Brooks is the most underrated.
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he post office -- and purchase -- a set of first-class postage stamps featuring first-class 20th-century American poets: Brodsky, Brooks, Williams, Hayden, Plath, Bishop, Stevens, Levertov, Cummings and Roethke. Seems like some of them were here just yesterday -- like Denise Levertov -- and I'd rather give that space to Howard Nemerov, whose poetry I like better -- but it's a fine gallery to start with. It's a sheet of 20 but features only 10 poets. Here's the Sylvia Plath stamp we have all been waiting for. Read or re-read the early works of Gwendolyn Brooks: wonderfully gymnastic, mind-bendingly original formal poetry. Of this entire group Brooks is the most underrated. 
Catherine Rankovic
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Thursday, 02 August 2012 16:06
posted by Carla Gibbs
I know Ms. Dickenson already had a stamp released (I have one that I cherish.) And I studied with Brodsky, so this makes him the first person I've known who got his own stamp. Agree re: Teasdale and St. Vincent Millay -- they should be on this set. Maybe there will be subsequent releases of poet stamps? Let's hope.
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Monday, 28 May 2012 17:27
posted by Michael Julian Hirschfeld
Just a critical comment on the choice of the 10 American poets honored on the new forever stamp. I know the stamp sought not to repeat the appearance of poets previously honored such as Robinson Jeffers or Robert Frost. However, the fact one of American's greatest poets, Hart Crane was not included is a travesty of justice. I assume Carl Sandburg as already appeared, and what of Sara Teasdale or Edna St. Vincent Millay? and Vachel Lindsay.
But Crane's neglect is unforgivable here.
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Poet Michael Julian Hirschfeld cousin to Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 16:38
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Julia Gordon-Bramer
Love it!
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