Helen Hoyt

Helen Lyman commonly known as Helen Hoyt or Helen Hoyt Lyman (January 22, 1887 – August 2, 1972) was an American poet.

Life and work

She was born as Helen Hoyt in Norwalk, Connecticut on January 22, 1887. Her father was Gould Jennings Holt (not Henry M. Hoyt, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1893]. Her niece was the 1920s poet Elinor Wylie,

Helen Hoyt was educated at Barnard College.

In 1921 she married fellow poet William Whittingham Lyman Jr, and so also became known either as Mrs. W.W. Lyman or Helen Hoyt Lyman.

Career

Early in her career Helen Hoyt was an Associate Editor of the journal Poetry, and also had numerous articles and poems published within the magazine from 1913 to 1936. She also edited the September 1916 edition of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, the woman's number. Other magazines to publish her work include The Egoist and The Masses.

Aside from her own collections, her work was also published in notable anthologies of her times, including The New Poetry: An Anthology (1917), The Second Book of Modern Verse (1920), Silver Pennies: Modern Poems for Boys and Girls (1925), May Days (1926), and The Best Poems of 1931.