Acclaimed folk singer-songwriter Kara Jackson from Oak Park was the National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019 to ... support from other artists in the Chicago music scene, including singer-songwriter ...

KELLY: A few years ago, she was named national youth poet laureate at the age of 19, becoming just the third person to hold that title. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) KARA JACKSON: Blood is not ...

Kara Jackson grew in Oak Park, IL, where she started writing poetry in high school. Turns out, she was so good at it that she was named first Chicago's, and then America's, Youth Poet Laureate.

At the end of 2023, as the year's best albums were tallied and assessed, Kara Jackson's ... background — the Chicago-based artist was the third U.S. National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019-2020 ...

Kara Jackson was introduced to the world as a poet. But her first love — before the Chicago-area teen started writing verse and was named the 2019-2020 U.S. national youth poet laureate — was ...

Chicago-based former National Youth Poet Laureate and singer/songwriter Kara Jackson has announced her debut album, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?, that will be out April 14 via September.

Young Chicago Authors, a poetry nonprofit, began administering its Chicago Youth ... state's poet laureate position in 2020 after it had been vacant since 2017. Award-winning poet Angela Jackson ...

The Poet Laureate, singer-songwriter, and most exciting new artist of 2023, Kara Jackson is thrilled to ... a community 10 miles west of Chicago, Kara studied music and writing from a very young ...

Kara Jackson is an award-winning poet, singer-songwriter, and producer from Oak Park, Illinois (Chicago). She is the 2019 National Youth Poet Laureate, and Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago (2018).