Kara Jackson

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Kara Jackson
Born1999 (age 24–25)
Genres
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
  • poet
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • banjo
  • piano
Years active2019–present

Kara Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, musician, essayist and poet. She was the third U.S. National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019 and 2020.

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Career

Kara Jackson is from Oak Park, Illinois and attended Oak Park River Forest High School, where she participated in spoken word. [1] [2] [3] Jackson also participated in a jazz ensemble at Merit School of Music, and was the Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago in 2018. [4] [5] [6] She performed at the Louder Than a Bomb 2018 finals and was selected by Patricia Smith for the Literary Award. [4] [5] [7] In 2019, she was named the United States National Youth Poet Laureate from after submitting an essay on poetry and democracy. [8] [9] [10] In the same year, she published a chapbook of poetry, Bloodstone Cowboy. [11] [12] She studied English at Smith College, graduating in 2023. [13] [14] Her work has appeared in Poetry , Frontier Poetry, Rookie Mag, Nimrod Literary Journal, The Lily, and Saint Heron. [15]

Jackson also made her musical debut in 2019 with the release of her EP, A Song for Every Chamber of the Heart. Her first full-length album, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? was released in 2023 to much acclaim, being named Best New Music by Pitchfork. [13] [16] [17] Jackson provided vocals, guitar, banjo, and piano on the album, and collaborated with musicians Kaina, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, and Sen Morimoto on lyrics and production. [11] [18] The album was dedicated to, and inspired by, Jackson's friend Maya-Gabrielle Gary, who passed away from cancer in 2016. [18] Jackson has listed Joanna Newsom, Joni Mitchell, Megan Thee Stallion, Joan Baez, Jim Croce, and Ella Fitzgerald as musical inspirations. [19] [15] [3] In 2023, she also opened for Corinne Bailey Rae's Black Rainbows tour, and appeared on Kevin Abstract's Blanket . [18] [20]

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