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ACH046: Every student learns the poem “Trees” in school. But now Tom and Noëlle Crowe tell us the story of its author Joyce Kilmer Catholic convert who wrote that and more poems, including his heroic sacrifice of his life as a soldier in France in World War I.
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Links for this episode:
- The Poet Who Died Fighting | Stories | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame
- Joyce Kilmer: the ‘Apostle to Bohemia’ who died in battle – Catholic Herald (subscription required)
- Joyce Kilmer and the Fighting 69th – The American Catholic
- The tragedy of Joyce Kilmer, the Catholic poet killed in World War I | America Magazine
- Joyce Kilmer – Wikipedia
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