Listen, my children: Stamp honors Longfellow Bicentennial

The Postal Service issued its Henry Wadsworth Longfellow commemorative stamp recently, honoring the 200th anniversary of the bard’s birth.

Katherine Tobin, a member of the USPS Board of Governors, spoke at the issuance ceremony, which took place at the American Stamp Dealers show in New York. “Longfellow was a giant in his time and he is a model for our time, a scholar and poet who loved his family, his nation, his fellow human beings and the pursuit of excellence throughout his life,” she said.

Longfellow is the 23rd honoree in the popular Literary Arts commemorative stamp series, joining other American literary giants Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Herman Melville and John Steinbeck.

The stamp is available online at www.usps.com/shop, by telephone at 800-STAMP-24 and at local Post Offices.