Join Lost and Found on Sunday, May 5th @ 5pm to hear her recent conversation with Poet Laureate, singer-songwriter, Kara Jackson, before she plays Cafe du Nord in SF on May 7th.
Raised by country folk and Black feminist poets like Gwendolyn Brooks and Lucille Clifton, Kara’s songs have the softness and warmth of a southern drawl, while still being sharp enough to cut deep.
Born and raised in Oak Park, IL, a community 10 miles west of Chicago, Kara studied music and writing from a very young age. A Black Queer polymath, she took piano lessons from the age of 5 and later taught herself to play guitar. She honed her poetry skills in high school, eventually becoming the National Youth Poet Laureate in 2019.
That same year, Kara self-released her debut EP, A Song for Every Chamber of the Heart, a tender offering of acoustic meditations on love and desire. Since then she has toured the country in support of artists such as Julia Jacklin, Neko Case, Ibeyi, and Angel Olsen.
Latest album, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?, is out now on September Records.
Photo Credit: Ashleigh Dye
