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Joyce Kilmer
1886–1918
Best remembered for the much-loved poem “Trees,” this American writer brought together plainspoken lyricism, religious feeling, and a deep affection for everyday beauty. His life was cut short in World War I, which gives his work an added sense of poignancy.
6 Audiobooks
Trees, and Other Poems
by Joyce Kilmer
Main Street, and Other Poems
by Joyce Kilmer
The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces
by Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer : poems, essays and letters in two volumes. Volume 1, memoirs and poems
by Joyce Kilmer
Summer of Love
by Joyce Kilmer
About the author
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1886, Joyce Kilmer was an American poet, journalist, editor, and critic. He studied at Rutgers and Columbia, and became widely known for verse that found wonder in nature and ordinary life, especially the poem “Trees,” first published in 1913 and later collected in Trees and Other Poems.
Kilmer also wrote essays and reviews, and his work often reflected his Catholic faith as well as his gift for clear, musical language. Though “Trees” remains his most famous poem, he published several books during his lifetime, including Summer of Love and Main Street and Other Poems.
In 1917 he enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I, and he was killed in action in France in 1918 at just 31 years old. That brief life helped fix his reputation as both a popular poet and a figure of wartime remembrance.