The Postal Service issued a 37-cent Ogden Nash commemorative stamp in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of twenty on August 19, 2002, in Baltimore, Maryland. The stamp, designed by Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, California, and illustrated by Michael J. Deas of New Orleans, Louisiana, went on sale nationwide August 20, 2002.
With this issuance, the Postal Service honored poet Ogden Nash on the centennial of his birth. A gentle satirist, Nash poked fun at human foibles without cynicism. He wrote on many subjects, but all of his poetry expressed his wry wit and demonstrated playfulness with the English language. He invented words and used puns, creative misspellings, irregular line lengths, and unexpected rhymes to make his verse humorous and memorable. Because of his unique style, many consider Ogden Nash to be one of the most accomplished American writers of light verse in the twentieth century. This stamp is the eighteenth stamp in the Literary Art Series.
Avery Dennison printed 75 million stamps in the gravure process.
