Somewhere in one of the Campion Books I thought I read that Joyce Kilmer wrote his famous poem Trees after being inspired by his visit to the Campion Jesuit College Campus whereby he was impressed by the pathway through the trees to the Student Chapel. There are many websites which seem to ponder the questions when, where, and why Kilmer came up with the poem. I think Campion Knights know the answer.

• The 1917 Commencement Speech, The Courage of Enlightenment, was presented by Joyce Kilmer. It was his last formal address.
• The Story of Joyce Kilmer and Campion - Campion Jesuit HS' own Kilmer Brochure
• Kilmers granddaughters website
• THE JOYCE KILMER PAPERS: FOLDER LISTING CONTINUED
• Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
• Joyce Kilmer Trail
• To Joyce Kilmer by Robert W. Pinkerton
• Selected Poetry of Joyce Kilmer
• A Tribute to Joyce Kilmer - by John Covella
  And as of 2013 the plot thickens..
  Now Manwah claims a lost letter of Joyces wife stating she recalled him sitting at home when he wrote the poem is enough for them to believe it was the trees viewed from his home were the trees that he refers to in his poem. I think that is still a leap. Perhaps those trees reminded him of his favorite trees in PdC and got him to pen it. Afterall, he was planning to move to PdC after the war. Why would he leave his favorite trees to come to PdC. It was because his favorite trees were in PdC. (Our Opinion of course).
  Letter backs Mahwah's claim on Joyce Kilmer poem 'Trees'

Ugh!Unbelievable!!! As of 2018 many of the links have gone broken. So much for their tributes. I put a strike through the broken ones. If someone can follow up with each of those to figure out if they simply moved to a new site or something, please do so and let us know what the new link is.

Here are some new current (2018) ones...

• Poet, Soldier, Knight from Knights or Columbus
• The tragedy of Joyce Kilmer from America Magazine
• His Affinity for Mahwah, in His Own Words

Sorry for so many of the new website are loaded with boocoo advertisements.

Back when I orginally created this page, Yahoo had 1100+ links to "Kilmer and Trees". Now (2008) Yahoo has 437,000 links. Google has 259,000 links to "Kilmer" and "Trees"

And as of 2018 Yahoo has 178,000 links, while Google has 4,090,000. But the problem with Google; they now include anything and everything commercial that just happens to be for example located near the Joyce Kilmer Forest. Or other links that have just Kilmer or just Joyce in them. Ugh!