He loved poetry. He wanted me to read mine, but I couldn’t write fast enough, so I’d bring books of poetry with me. When I wasn’t in a pose, I would read poetry to him. After about 20 years, we ...

Joyce Kilmer wrote one of the most famous%2C most beloved%2C most parodied poems His ode to trees is known by almost everyone%2C critic said But rote memorization of poetry is on the way out in ...

The results are in! This last April the Library held its first ever Poetry Contest for kindergarten through grade 12 students. Over 100 poems about trees and/or National Arbor Day were submitted.

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 ...

The Carriage House Poetry Series and the Fanwood Shade Tree Commission are pleased to announce a poetry contest in observance of Arbor Day. The Carriage House Poetry Contest is seeking poems that ...

Afternoon sunshine twinkles off the Charles River’s tiny blue waves and warms the grass on its shores. Beneath the nearby trees, students lay out on towels with their laptops and textbooks. Some ...

“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 ...