When she was 15, Joan Leiman Jacobson entered Smith College at the age of 15. She graduated in 1947. A native of New York, Mrs. Jacobson spent more of her life in New York City. She also spent most of her life as a passionate promoter of writing and poetry.
We became interested in Mrs. Jacobson in a roundabout way. She and her husband endowed the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning at Smith College. Sara Eddy, Tweetspeak Poetry’s Summer Lights Poet this year, works at the center as the assistant director and Writing Enriched Curriculum Specialist.
The members of the center’s staff are drawn from the college’s faculty. Several of them are lecturers in English language and literature. They specialize in specific areas of writing – science writing, technology, general writing, public speaking, and multilingual writing.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Photograph by Aaron Burden via Unsplash. Used with permission.
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