Joyce Kilmer's reputation as a poet is staked largely on the widespread popularity of one poem—"Trees" (1913). It was first published in the August 1913 issue of "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse" which had begun publishing the year before in Chicago, Illinois and was included as the title poem in a collection of poems "Trees and Other Poems" (1914). According to Kilmer's oldest son, Kenton, the poem was written on February 2, 1913 when the family resided in Mahwah, New Jersey.