| Joyce Kilmer  AKA Alfred Joyce Kilmer
Born: 6-Dec-1886
Birthplace: New Brunswick, NJ
Died: 30-Jul-1918
Location of death: Seringes, France
Cause of death: War
Remains: Buried, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, Picardie, France
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Trees Military service: US Army (WWI, 42nd Infantry Division, killed in action) Notorious particularly for one single poem, frequently memorized:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Wife: Aline Murray
University: Rutgers University
University: BA, Columbia University (1908)
The New York Times
Croix de Guerre (posthumously)
Converted to Catholicism
Author of books:
Summer of Love (1911, poetry)
Trees and Other Poems (1914, poetry)
The Circus and Other Essays (1916, essays)
Main Street and Other Poems (1917, poetry)
Literature in the Making (1917)
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