Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 - 30 July 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a poem entitled "Trees" (1913) which was published in the collection "Trees and Other Poems" in 1914. Wikipedia
"I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree" Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest has some of the largest trees in the United States east of the Mississippi. www.joycekilmerforest.com
According to my Dad, Joyce Kilmer's eldest son, Joyce was writing about trees in general, not about any particular tree. www.risingdove.com/Kilmer/Trees.asp
The memories and reminiscences on those pages were contemporary in the sense of being freshly and freely applied to the times, and in another sense of being familiar with Kilmer's literary world. www.write-fitcomm.com/joyce_kilmer_tribute.htm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Joyce Kilmer. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Kilmer
Before leaving the subject of trees, it seems an appropriate time to share the story of another notable associated with Notre Dame, the Grotto, and another tree on campus -- Joyce Kilmer. www.nd.edu/~wcawley/corson/cors023.htm
