Biography of joyce kilmer trees

Joyce Kilmer
December 6, 1886 - July 30, 1918

Born Alfred Joyce Kilmer on December 6, 1886, this creative soul and devout Christian became a journalist, poet, literary critic, and an editor at the New York Times.

Biography of joyce kilmer trees

Yet, a single poem catapulted Kilmer to notoriety, a 12-line poem expressing his dearest affection for “Trees,” written in the year 1913.  Joyce Kilmer’s poem was published in 1914 in a collection entitled, Trees and Other Poems.

Many admirers of this poem have given their perception as to what particular tree so inspired Joyce Kilmer’s imagination. It is said by some that it was a magnificent white oak tree on the campus at Rutgers College in New Jersey that inspired this literary work of art, the college he attended from 1904 thru 1906.  Although, Joyce Kilmer’s son Kenton has stated that the poem had no particular tree in mind, and that his father had no exceptional sentiment concerning trees, just a common admiration for thei