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AvatarKara Jackson

Kara Jackson is the author of Bloodstone Cowboy (Haymarket Books). She is the 2019 National Youth Poet Laureate and the 2018 Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Frontier Poetry, Rookie Mag, Nimrod Literary Journal and Saint Heron.

The Friday Poem: i woke up and the day caught me by Kara Jackson

28 February 202028 February 2020 by Kara Jackson

A poem by US National Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson.   i woke up and the day caught me   in its mouth like a strand of yarn i am useful the motivation for a scarf, maybe   some stitch started to be finished i will make up someone’s heat i will be a fire … Read more

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