DID YOU KNOW?
Poet patriot Joyce Kilmer was paid $6 for his famous poem "Trees," which he wrote in his Mahwah house on February 2, 1913. It appeared for the first time in the August, 1913 issue of Poetry magazine, and remains one of the most often-quoted poems in the English language.
(Today marks the beginning of a series on the facts in the life of poet patriot Joyce Kilmer, who rose to international fame while living and writing in Mahwah from 1912 through 1916.)
