![]() Jacobsen was also a fan of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team and wrote poems on her love of baseball.) She was inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994 and received the Robert Frost Medal for her Lifetime of achievement in poetry. She received honorary doctorates from Goucher College, The College of Notre Dame in Maryland, Towson State University, and Johns Hopkins University. Among her awards are an Academy of American Poets fellowship and the 1997 Poets' Prize for In the Crevice of Time. Jacobsen is the author of several collections of poetry and prose. Joseph Brodsky praised her poetry for its "reserve, stoic timbre, and its high precision" while William Meredith called her "post-cocious" for her prolific writing late in life. ![]() She was a prolific writer of poems and short-stories into her ninth decade. She served as member of both the literature panel for the National Endowment of the Arts and of the poetry committee of Folger Library. ![]() Jacobsen served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress from 1971 to 1973 and as honorary consultant in American letters from 1973 to 1979. When she was fourteen, she moved to Maryland where she lived for the rest of her life. She was appointed the twenty-first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971.īorn in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, she moved with her family to New York at a young age. Josephine Jacobsen is author of In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems ( 1995), a nominee for the National Book Award, and What Goes Without Saying Collected Short Stories (1996.) She continues to live and write in Baltimore.Įlizabeth Spires is a writer-in-residence, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, and the author of four collections of poetry.Josephine Jacobsen (19 August 1908 – 9 July 2003) was an American poet, short story writer, and critic. The book is edited and introduced by the poet Elizabeth Spires, and concludes with three recent, uncollected poems of Jacobsen's. Salinger an unpublished lecture, "The Admiring Bog," on the perils of poetic celebrity and an extended interview with John Wheatcroft. The volume also includes critical pieces on Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, e.e. Of special interest are two lectures delivered at the Library of Congress while she was Consultant in Poetry there, and a rich assortment of never before collected op-ed and travel pieces from the Baltimore Sun. The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose joins recent collections of Jacobsen's poetry and short stories, bringing together for the first time the highlights of this distinguished poet's long and varied career as a literary critic, lecturer, and reviewer. She has since been honored numerous times, receiving such prestigious awards as the annual Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ![]() Though Jacobsen has been writing and publishing for almost eighty years, she remained outside the literary world until she was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. Josephine Jacobsen, born in 1908, had her first poem published when she was just ten years old. ![]()
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