List of places named after Joyce Kilmer

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This is a list of places which are located all around the world named or renamed in honor of American poet, writer and literary critic Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).

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Places

In the United States

Illinois

Indiana

Massachusetts

  • Joyce Kilmer Road in West Roxbury (Boston), Massachusetts. This residential street ends near the Lower Joyce Kilmer School in West Roxbury.
  • Sgt Joyce Alfred Kilmer Square in Boston, Massachusetts, at the north-eastern junction of Centre Street and Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway (VFW Parkway), at the boundary of West Roxbury and Roslindale. [3]
  • Joyce Kilmer School in West Roxbury (Boston), Massachusetts. This K-8 school has two buildings ("Lower", K-3 and "Upper" 4–8) located less than 2 miles from each other. [4]

Michigan

  • Joyce Kilmer Road in Roscommon, Michigan. This road ends at a Branch of the very famous Au Sable River. Plenty of 'Trees' too!

Minnesota

  • Joyce Kilmer Memorial Fireplace (built 1936) in Como Park in St. Paul, MN [5] Kilmer was honored by St. Paul Parks Superintendent W. Lamont Kauffman, who was a charter member of the Joyce Kilmer post of the American Legion.

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Schools

Miscellaneous

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joyce Kilmer</span> American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier

Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">New Jersey Route 17</span> State highway in Bergen County, New Jersey, US

Route 17 is a state highway in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, that provides a major route from the George Washington Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and other northeast New Jersey points to the New York State Thruway at Suffern, New York. It runs 27.20 mi (43.77 km) from an intersection with Route 7 and County Route 507 (CR 507) in North Arlington north to the New York state line along Interstate 287 (I-287) in Mahwah, where New York State Route 17 (NY 17) continues into New York. Between Route 7 and Route 3 in Rutherford, Route 17 serves as a local road. From Route 3 north to the junction with U.S. Route 46 (US 46) in Hasbrouck Heights, the road is an arterial road with jughandles. The portion of Route 17 from US 46 to I-287 near the state line in Mahwah is a four- to six-lane arterial with all cross traffic handled by interchanges, and many driveways and side streets accessed from right-in/right-out ramps from the right lane. For three miles (5 km) north of Route 4, well over a hundred retail stores and several large shopping malls line the route in the borough of Paramus. The remainder of this portion of Route 17 features lighter suburban development. The northernmost portion of Route 17 in Mahwah runs concurrently with I-287 to the New York state line.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mahwah, New Jersey</span> Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, US

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">New Brunswick, New Jersey</span> City in Middlesex County, New Jersey, US

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rogers Park, Chicago</span> Community area in the United States

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Roxbury</span> Neighborhood of Boston in Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Ridge, Chicago</span> Community area in Chicago

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trees (poem)</span> Poem by Joyce Kilmer

"Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and included in Kilmer's 1914 collection Trees and Other Poems. The poem, in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, describes what Kilmer perceives as the inability of art created by humankind to replicate the beauty achieved by nature.

Columbia blue is a light blue color named after Columbia University. The color itself derives from the official hue of the Philolexian Society, the university's oldest student organization. Although Columbia blue is often identified with Pantone 292, the Philolexian Society first used it in the early 19th century, before the standardization of colors. Pantone 290, a slightly lighter shade of blue, has also been specified by some Columbia University offices, and is the current official color listed by the Columbia University visual communications office. Several other shades are also used by parts of the university in an official capacity.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Camp Kilmer</span> U.S. military facility in New Jersey

Located in Central New Jersey, Camp Kilmer is a former United States Army camp that was activated in June 1942 as a staging area and part of an installation of the New York Port of Embarkation. The camp was organized as part of the Army Service Forces Transportation Corps. Troops were quartered at Camp Kilmer in preparation for transport to the European Theater of Operations in World War II. Eventually, it became the largest processing center for troops heading overseas and returning from World War II, processing over 2.5 million soldiers. It officially closed in 2009.

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References

  1. Joyce Kilmer Elementary school (Buffalo Grove, IL) website
  2. Joyce Kilmer Elementary school (Chicago, IL) website
  3. As of April 27, 2022, no information about this square can be found on the web, and this square is not listed on Google Maps even though the sign with its name appears on the Google street photo.
  4. Joyce Kilmer K-8 school (West Roxbury, MA) website
  5. Xiong, Chao. "At Como Park, a hearth-warming". Newspaper. Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
  6. 1 2 Mappen, Marc. The Encyclopedia of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 117.
  7. Kilmer Library website
  8. Kilmer Rest Area - New Jersey Turnpike Archived 2008-08-01 at the Wayback Machine published by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (no further authorship information available). Retrieved January 13, 2007.
  9. Brewer, Alberta, and Brewer, Carson. Valley So Wild. (Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1975), 350-351.
  10. Joyce Kilmer Elementary School Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  11. "Joyce Kilmer Elementary School". Archived from the original on 2012-05-30. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  12. Joyce Kilmer Elementary School
  13. Joyce Kilmer K-8 School
  14. The Philolexian Society Archived 2012-07-17 at the Wayback Machine at the Philolexian Foundation website. Published by the Philolexian Foundation (no further authorship information available). Retrieved 13 January 2007.
  15. Natural History/The Journal of the American Museum. Vol. 19. 1919.
  16. XIX, 1919, pp. 746-47.