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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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| Born | 1999 (age 24–25) |
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| Years active | 2019–present |
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]
- Bloodstone Cowboy (Haymarket Books, 2019)[21]
Studio albums
EPs
- A Song for Every Chamber of the Heart (2019)[22]
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