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
GenresPoetry, short stories, reviews
Notable worksIn the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems (1995) won the Poets' Prize.
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. In 1997, she received the Poetry Society of America's highest award, the Robert Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.