Alfred Joyce Kilmer was born on 6 December 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, into a household in which intellectual seriousness and artistic feeling were not opposites but companion forces. His father, Frederick Barnett Kilmer, was a physician, analytical chemist, and later a leading scientific figure at Johnson & Johnson; his work helped establish standards for pharmaceutical and consumer-health products in an era…
“At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, War Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace
In the shadowed corridors of early twentieth-century American literature, where the voices of African American poets often echoed against the unyielding walls of racial indifference, Roscoe Conkling Jamison stands as a poignant figure—a man whose brief life burned with the quiet fire of genius, only to be extinguished far too soon. Born around 1888 in the small town of Winchester, Tennessee, and passing away on March…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Sorrow, Anger
