Helen Hoyt — a remark

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“At present most of what we know, or think we know, of women has been found out by men. We have yet to hear what woman will tell of herself, and where can she tell more intimately than in poetry?”

Calling for women to voice their own experiences in poetry rather than remain subjects of male observation · Editorial preface to the Woman’s Number of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, September 1916

About Helen Hoyt

Helen Hoyt

22 January 1887–2 August 1972

Helen Hoyt, born on 22 January 1887 in Norwalk, Connecticut, and dead on 2 August 1972, belonged to the generation of American poets that came of age just as literary modernism was remaking the possibilities of verse. She was a poet, editor, anthologist, and perceptive advocate for new writing, yet her name has often…

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