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 ...

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 ...

When Joyce Kilmer wrote the immortal words, "I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree," he probably never dreamed of the day when a legion of Canadian poets would rally to save an ...

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 ...

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple, as the Sun pointed out when Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty ...

Tom Brady posted a poem called “Good Timber” on Instagram Thursday night. It was written by Douglas Malloch, who was the editor of the Chicago trade paper American Lumberman in the early 1900s, and ...

“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 ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — In the Bryant neighborhood of south Minneapolis, there's a tree that doesn't ask for much — just a little kindness and the willingness to connect. "Read a poem, write a poem, take a poem ...

The author of this week's poem, Katherine Gallagher, was born in 1935 in Maldon, a gold-mining town in central Victoria, Australia, and grew up on a farm in nearby Eastville. She lived in Paris for a ...

There's a certain irony that the publication of a new anthology of poems about trees coincided with President Trump's announcement yesterday that the United States would withdraw from the Paris ...