Reading Helen Hoyt, Poet and Visionary
S6 E4: Reading Helen Hoyt, Poet and Visionary
Sarah and Rebecca invite you to join them as they explore the poetry of Helen Hoyt through her poem Annunciation.
Poet Helen Hoyt (1887-1972), born in Norwalk, Connecticut, was the daughter of former Pennsylvania governor Henry Hoyt. Educated at Barnard College, she lived in Chicago and worked as an associate editor for Poetry. In 1916, she edited an issue of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, an American literary magazine founded by Alfred Kreymborg in July 1915.
As editor of the 1916 issue, Hoyt addressed her interest in poetry as a space for…
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