NEW YORK — Bill Murray has turned up everywhere from bachelor parties to baseball games, but his latest surprise has a more literary side: He shares some favorite poems in the April issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, which comes out Friday.

The actor is featured on a page dedicated to National Poetry Month, offering brief asides on works by Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton, Thomas Lux and Naomi Shihab Nye.

For Clifton’s inspirational “what the mirror said,” Murray comments, “everybody needs an ‘Attagirl!’ now and then.” Murray also includes Kinnell’s “Oatmeal,” with its reference to sharing a meal with the late John Keats.

“Alas, Kinnell, too, is now available for breakfast,” Murray adds, noting that the poet died in 2014.

Murray is a longtime supporter of Poets House, a literary center based in Manhattan, and one year read works there by Emily Dickinson and others to a gathering of construction workers.

Murray’s other picks include Lux’s romantic ode “I Love You Sweatheart,” of which he said, “This poem vibrates the insides of my ribs, where the meat is most tender.” He also felt a personal connection to Nye’s “Famous” and its lines “I want to be famous in the way/ a pulley is famous/ or a buttonhole, not because it did/ anything spectacular/ but because it never forgot/what it could do.”