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 ...

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 ...

Climbed any good trees lately? It had been a while since I'd sampled the freedom and the thrill of the high branches. Then, at a Huntsville Literary Association Sunday Salon last spring, I heard Carey ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve featured several other poems by Bruce Guernsey, who lives in Illinois and Maine. But here he is visiting Gettysburg and giving us a poem for Memorial Day. “Naming the Trees” is forthcoming in ...

While it may be April Fools’ Day, today also marks the start of National Poetry Month. (No fooling.) So we’ve been asking educators on Twitter to share the classroom activities and resources they use ...