| Length | 04:27 |
| Licensor | Sarah Elzas |
| Producer(s) | Sarah Elzas |
| Formats | Soft Feature |
| Topics | Environment, Historical, Literature |
| Produced | January, 2006 |
| Added to PRX | January 22, 2006 |
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A profile of Joyce Kilmer, author of Trees
April: April is poetry month
English
Joyce Kilmer was born in 1886, and lived most of his short life in New Jersey. He is best known for his poem Trees, which he wrote in 1913. He was a contemporary of Ezra Pound, but he rejected the modernist movement. In fact, he went so far as to write some modernist poetry as a joke and publish it under the pseudonym of Alfred Watts.
This piece is a profile of the man and his poetry, both his own and as Alfred Watts.
I have also produced more of an homage to Trees: "A Poem Lovely as a Tree" which is on PRX: www.prx.org/pieces/8583
