Kara Jackson is an American poet, singer, and songwriter. She is from Oak Park, Illinois. Jackson was named the United States National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2020. Her work has appeared in POETRY, Frontier Poetry, Rookie Mag, Nimrod Literary Journal, The Lily, and Saint Heron. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.