NEW YORK — There was expectation in the room that someone would deliver a poem as lovely as a tree. Or not. The expectation was about choosing the worst of the worst — the worst bad poem of the year.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...