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