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Poet, Sgt Joyce Kilmer US Army (Served 1917-1918) Short Bio: Well known for his poem, "Trees", (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer enlisted at age 30 in the US Army at the outbreak of the American involvement in WWI. On July 30, 1918, during the battle of Ourcq, France, he was killed near Muercy Farm, beside the Oureq River near the village of Seringes in France when a German sniper shot him. He was posthumously awarded the French Croix de Guerre for his valor.

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On the back cover of Jack, the Lady Killer (Poisoned Pen Press, 1999), the detective tale told in poetic form by the late H. R. F. Keating, Jack is described as "one of the rarest forms known to literature, the detective novel in verse." How strange indeed: a 1930s mystery in the form of a narrative poem Well, just guess what your Passing Tramp has come across: How Strange a Thing, a narrative murder mystery poem of 96 pages by one Dorothy Bennett, published in 1935 by Caxton Printers of…

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On a chilly winter afternoon in 1913, at his home in New Jersey, poet Joyce Kilmer jotted down the first two lines of a new poem in his notebook, along…

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The little book of modern verse, a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets : Rittenhouse, Jessie B. (Jessie Belle), 1869-1948, ed : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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