Joyce Kilmer wrote one of the most famous%2C most beloved%2C most parodied poems His ode to trees is known by almost everyone%2C critic said But rote memorization of poetry is on the way out in ...

WEST SAND LAKE — Betty Murphy's West Sand Lake Elementary first-grade class stood in a row before their schoolmates Thursday afternoon, ready to recite by memory the 32-line poem they wrote. Murphy ...

He loved poetry. He wanted me to read mine, but I couldn’t write fast enough, so I’d bring books of poetry with me. When I wasn’t in a pose, I would read poetry to him. After about 20 years, we ...

“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 ...

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple, as the Sun pointed out when Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty ...

There are lots of creative Christmas tree recycling programs around the country, and in keeping with the holiday spirit, here are a few of them — set to verse. It's the week after Christmas, and in ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse lawmakers unanimously approved Mayor Ben Walsh’s plan to spend $2 million in federal stimulus money to plant new trees throughout the city. Before the vote, however, Common ...