Kara Jackson has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 11 episodes and was first played on 19 April 2023.

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.