The Poetry Of Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on December 6, 1886, the youngest of four children. Kilmer's birthplace is still standing, housing a small museum to Kilmer and a few government offices.  Kilmer entered the Rutgers College Grammar School at the age of 8, graduating in 1904 to continue his education at Rutgers College for the next two years. Whilst there he became the associate editor of the campus newspaper but found his mathematics course too difficult and transferred to