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Judith Hoyer \u201965 shares her love of poetry with a new generation.<\/span><\/h4>\n

When Judith Hoyer was a student at Worcester State in the 1960s, poets like Robert Frost, Randall Jarrell, and Archibald Macleish were household names. Hoyer, who had loved poetry her entire life, attended every reading she could and saw all three poets when they read in Worcester. \u201cPoets were rock stars,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were my heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Upon completing her degree, Hoyer put aside her dream of becoming a poet herself to focus her energy on her family and her career as a school psychologist in the Medway, Mass., public school system. It was only after she retired in 2005 that she was able to pursue that dream.<\/p>\n

She describes the years since retiring as \u201ca little like being an adolescent.\u201d Poetry has helped her access great depths of emotion. Her involvement in the poetry world has also afforded her a chance to be in a community of other like-minded people. She has published a chapbook\u2014Bits and Pieces Set Aside<\/i> (Finishing Line Press)\u2014and has a full-length collection, Imagine That<\/i>, coming out next spring from FutureCycle Press.<\/p>\n

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Judith Hoyer at Burncoat Park. (Photos by Matt Wright ’10)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always thinking about poetry,\u201d she said, \u201calways. Walking, reading\u2014all of that counts.\u201d She does sometimes face writer\u2019s block, but she has a way to deal with that. \u201cIf I can\u2019t come up with something, I go for another walk, read, maybe bake some cookies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of her poems tend to be about herself and her experiences in some way. Her best poems, she thinks, are \u201cabout something that I know really well.\u201d Nevertheless, one of her favorite things about writing poetry is surprising herself. \u201cThe fun thing is when you get to the end of a poem and think, \u2018Oh, voila!\u2019 You realize something you didn\u2019t think of before. That\u2019s very satisfying.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2013, Hoyer attended a poetry reading at Worcester State, organized by English professor and poet Heather Treseler. The reading was the first of a poetry reading series that Treseler was trying to run on a shoestring budget. Hoyer knew right away she wanted to help fund the series. \u201cI wanted the students at my state college to have an experience that\u2019s available to students in other colleges in the Worcester community.\u201d Through this series, students would be able to hear poets read and also meet them, ask questions, and get answers.<\/p>\n

With this idea, Hoyer approached Treseler, whom she describes as a \u201cwriter, teacher, poet extraordinaire. She\u2019s just the best.\u201d Now named the Judith O\u2019Connell Hoyer Poetry Reading Series, the program brings two new poets to campus each year for readings and craft discussions with students. Hoyer doesn\u2019t give Treseler suggestions on poets to invite to the series. \u201cI\u2019m firm about letting Heather do that. She has a vast network of poets she knows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the eight years the two poets have known each other, their mutual respect has grown. \u201cJudy is someone I admire so much,\u201d Treseler said, \u201cbecause she pulled off the trifecta of having a successful professional career, having a writing career with two books to her name and many publications in journals, and being a wonderful person. She never lost sight of her literary sense and ambition and pursued it with a lot of diligence, patience, and openness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoyer, who lives in Wayland, Mass., attends all of the readings at Worcester State\u2014but says she can\u2019t choose a favorite from among the readings. \u201cThey were all terrific,\u201d she said. \u201cI see the students flock to these readings, and they feel so comfortable being in an atmosphere where it\u2019s okay to ask questions and be enthusiastic about being creative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese readings have provided for me a sense of being in a community that believes in art and the value of poetry to enrich lives in a time when people are looking for beauty, for solace, in a time when the world is so fraught with trouble,\u201d she said. She hopes that the students who attend these readings also see poetry as providing community, giving comfort, inspiring people to be creative, and facilitating an appreciation for the arts.<\/p>\n

Though Hoyer has favorite poets that she always returns to, like Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, Eavan Boland, Rita Dove, and Diane Seuss, she says, \u201cIt\u2019s always wonderful to hear new poets.\u201d She is excited about the state of poetry today. \u201cIt\u2019s very inclusive in a way that it was not before. Everybody comes with their own background, and that\u2019s what\u2019s so special.\u201d The Judith O\u2019Connell Hoyer Poetry Reading Series has brought poets with a variety of backgrounds and often underrepresented identities.<\/p>\n

All told, the university has brought fourteen nationally known or emerging poets to the Worcester State campus in fewer than ten years. Poets who have read at Worcester State are Alan Michael Parker, Joy Katz, Forrest Gander, who would soon win the Pulitzer Prize, Christina Davis, Sandra Lim, Anna V. Q. Ross, Marge Piercy, B. K. Fischer, Kevin Prufer, K. B. Kinkel, Jennifer Militello, Virginia Konchan, Stephen Kuusisto, and Nathan McClain. Hoyer hasn’t missed a single reading.<\/p>\n

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\"Judith<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n

End of Childhood<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n

I was a believer in those honest acres inside<\/span>
\ninvisible gates where I ran sunny and solitary<\/span>
\nfrom my mother\u2019s unforeseeable moods.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where my feet pumped high over the caretaker\u2019s<\/span>
\ncottage, summer house and swimming rink.<\/span>
\nBeyond everything, Green Hill, and the buffalo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where a grand fountain cooled down geraniums,<\/span>
\nthe earth around, the wire surround and boys<\/span>
\non bikes who rode too close.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where carp with mouths as wide as galvanized pails<\/span>
\nrose empty from the fishpond underworld<\/span>
\nto fill on bread pilfered from the pantry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where I learned to fringe a linen placemat with<\/span>
\nthe feel and color of parakeet feathers that cushioned<\/span>
\nmy breakfast cereal, banana, and spoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where the facts of life were blabbed to me<\/span>
\non a stone bridge that led from before to after.<\/span>
\nThere weren\u2019t many words, and the girl was gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where I can still hear a horseshoe striking<\/span>
\nluck around a metal stake or landing<\/span>
\nwith a thunk in a cloud of red dirt.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Judith Hoyer<\/span><\/p>\n

About the poem<\/span><\/h4>\n

The poem, \u201cEnd of Childhood,\u201d is from Hoyer’s forthcoming book <\/em>Imagine That from FutureCycle Press and first appeared in <\/em>The Worcester Review. Of the poem, Hoyer says, \u201cThe idea for the poem came from a workshop prompt given by my longtime poetry mentor, Tom Daley, who suggested that we write about a memory we had from a public place. It could have been the circus, a ball game, a busy city street, but the park hit a chord for me. Burncoat Park was just a hop, skip, and a jump from where I lived on Barnard Road. It was a place where I could escape. There was a feeling of freedom, of being in another world. I could ride my bike on the paths, meet my friends, bring a picnic lunch, play tennis, skate in the winter, and be a part of nature all year long. Of course, there was an aspect of danger, too, that went along with that freedom of being alone in a public place. There was a caretaker who lived on the grounds. His name was Bart McKeon, and he loved fussing over the huge, beautiful circle of geraniums in the middle of the park. Although it is much smaller now than when I was young, the park is a lovely, rather private, green space surrounded by an urban environment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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