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 ...

MAHWAH — Poet Joyce Kilmer, who wrote the iconic "Trees" during his five years as a local resident, will be honored with a concert at the Mahwah Public Library on Sunday, observed in the township as ...

“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 ...

Re: Excerpt from the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer used in article on Page A1. (“Removal of trees at city park stirs anger,” Sept. 8): HE (Kilmer) was a great poet and a hero of the legendary “Fighting ...

The location of the trees that Joyce Kilmer wrote were more lovely than any poem has long been in dispute, with a handful of towns from Massachusetts to Indiana claiming to have inspired the verse.

On Dec. 6, 1886, a boy was born in New Brunswick who developed a love for words, country and -- most famously -- trees. Joyce Kilmer's father was a chemist. But like his mother, a poet and composer, ...