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In April 2012, the U.S. Postal Service issued a series of commemorative stamps dedicated to twentieth-century poets. On June 11, 2012, the Academy Award-winning actor and comedian Bill Murray selected two poems by Wallace Stevens, "The Planet on the Table" and "A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts," for his reading at Bubby's Brooklyn as part of Poets House's 17th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge. The Editor's Column in the Fall 2011 issue, in which the question was asked, "Where would one find whistling blackbirds among these high-rise buildings, at the heart of the constantly throbbing machine of midtown Manhattan?," drew the following good-humored response from John Holland, in an e-mail to the Editor sent on March 26, 2012: "There are 'Whitmanian loafers' called birders who often tread Manhattan's Library Walk on their way to the New York Public Library in search of yellow-breasted chats, seen regularly from September to January 2012.