Josephine Jacobsen

Josephine Jacobsen
BornJosephine Winder Boylan
(1908-08-19)August 19, 1908
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
DiedJuly 9, 2003(2003-07-09) (aged 94)
Cockeysville, Maryland U.S.
Occupation
  • Spouse
  • Mother
  • writer
NationalityAmerican
GenresPoetry, short stories, reviews
Notable worksIn the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems (1995) won the Poets' Prize.[1]
Children1

Josephine Jacobsen (19 August 1908 – 9 July 2003) was a Canadian-born American poet, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She was appointed the twenty-first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971.[2] In 1997, she received the Poetry Society of America's highest award, the Robert Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.