Joyce Kilmer Facts #19

DID YOU KNOW?

While living in Mahwah in 1914, poet patriot Joyce Kilmer summed up his life to Book Monthly magazine this way: "I live in the Ramapo Hills in Jersey and don't mind commuting. I have a wife and two children, am twenty-seven years old, am catholic in my tastes and Catholic in religion, am socially a democrat, and politically a Democrat. I am special writer on the staff of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Times Review of Books and the Literary Digest...I like to go fishing. This is not a pose. I really catch the fish."

Provided by the Joyce Kilmer Society of Mahwah