Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003)
Author of In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
Works by Josephine Jacobsen
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributor — 409 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributor — 13 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contributor — 3 copies
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- Other names
- JACOBSEN, Josephine
- Birthdate
- 1908-08-19
- Date of death
- 2003-07-09
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
- Place of death
- Cockeysville, Maryland, USA
- Education
- Roland Park Country School
- Occupations
- poet
short story writer
literary critic - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1994)
- Awards and honors
- Shelley Memorial Award (1992/1993)
Frost Medal (1996/1997)
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1987)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1982)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1971-1973) - Short biography
- Josephine Jacobsen was born in Cobourg, Canada. She moved with her family to the USA as a young teenager, settling in Maryland. She graduated from the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore in 1926.
She published numerous collections of poetry, including In the Crevice of Time (1995), The Chinese Insomniacs (1981), The Shade-Seller (1974), and The Animal Inside (1966), and also wrote short fiction and literary criticism.
She served as Poetry Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1971-1973, and as Honorary Consultant in American Letters to the Library from 1973-1979. She was a vice president of the Poetry Society of America and a member of the literature panels of the National Endowment of the Arts and the poetry committee of Folger Library.
She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994.
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