Jacobsen, Josephine (1908–2003)
Jacobsen, Josephine (1908–2003)
American poet, short-story writer and critic. Born Josephine Winder Boylan, Aug 19, 1908, in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada; died July 9, 2003, in Cockeysville, MD; m. Eric Jacobsen, 1932; children: Erland.
Brought to US at 3 months of age; earned recognition with 1st publication, Let Each Man Remember, a collection of 15 love sonnets; also published The Human Climate: New Poems (1953), The Animal Inside (1966), Distances (1991), In the Crevice of Time (1995) and What Goes Without Saying: Collected Stories of Josephine Jacobsen (2000); was consultant in poetry (title later changed to poet laureate) to Library of Congress (1971–73); inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994); frequent contributor to The New Yorker. Received Robert Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry from Poetry Society of America (1997).