Kimberly Hoyt
Campus School

Kimberly Hoyt is the Office Coordinator at the Campus School of Smith College and has been at the Campus School for six years. Outside of work, she enjoys gardening (a newer hobby), exercise, being outdoors in any capacity and adventuring with her kids – hiking or finding new spots to explore.

Ever since she was a young child, Kimberly has been writing poetry. Her first love of poetry came from her introduction to the works of E.E. Cummings; she has always admired how he played with not only words and their sound but also how the poem looks on paper. Her own poetry is most often inspired by the world, the interconnections of people and the dynamics of all different relationships.

Kimberly first became serious about her writing during high school and later studied Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College where she was awarded the Distinction in Poetry award prior to receiving her BFA.

There isn’t any one type of poetry that she prefers. Like E.E. Cummings, she sometimes likes to freewrite, other times she plays with structure and how it looks on paper; sometimes she wants her poems to rhyme and other times that isn’t as important to her. She often starts by free writing when she has a new poem in mind, playing games with words that rhyme or words she feels sound nice together to help get her brain in poetry mode.

Kimberly has submitted her poem, “renegades” to the Staff Arts Virtual Showcase. While it was written a while back, she thought that the theme was fitting with current times.