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, ...

MAHWAH — Favorite son and poet Joyce Kilmer, author of "Trees," will be among the Garden State luminaries inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in October. Kilmer authored “Trees” in his Mahwah ...