Josephine Jacobsen | |
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| Born | Josephine Winder Boylan August 19, 1908 Cobourg, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | July 9, 2003 (aged 94) Cockeysville, Maryland U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Poetry, short stories, reviews |
| Notable works | In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems (1995) won the Poets' Prize.[1] |
| Children | 1 |
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.