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You know about Joyce Kilmer`s little poem called ”Trees.” You know that it begins: ”I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” You know also that since 1913 when that poem was published, ...

“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in 1913 from a bedroom window looking out upon a winding network of fall colors in rural New Jersey. “Trees” is a poem ...

Everyone in the room must have been thinking the same thing, because when the chaplain started reciting the poem, voices behind me murmured in unison, following along: “I think that I shall never ...

NEW YORK — There was expectation in the room that someone would deliver a poem as lovely as a tree. Or not. The expectation was about choosing the worst of the worst — the worst bad poem of the year.

A century and change ago, Joyce Kilmer penned “Trees” with one of the most widely familiar opening couplets in America poetry: I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree. The other ...

Joyce Kilmer famously wrote, “I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” Well, south Minneapolis has a tree that Kilmer would go nuts for. It’s the Little Free Poet Tree, located in ...

Somewhere in the mushy folds of that thing you call a brain, there no doubt lurks some ancient rhyme just waiting for the chance to roll off your poetic lips, astonishing friends, delighting strangers ...