KEN JACKSON started off as a musician in high school, playing guitar and bass. He was still writing songs then. He took some college courses in jazz, piano, songwriting, and creative writing as well. Back in 1985, Ken Jackson recorded with a famous producer-Butch Vig, who produced Nevermind by Nirvana, a number-one album of the year in the early nineties. That's when Ken started writing poetry. He took a course in creative writing from UW-Extension. He wrote a few poems and people liked them, so he wrote more. There came a time when he used poetry as therapy where he would write two poems in every two weeks. And that beats the writer's block. A lot of that stuff is in Best of Ken Jackson. In 1999, Ken Jackson had put out a bunch of rock 'n roll albums. He was also participating in a monthly poetry group for a while. He wrote one section of this book using a variety of student researchers. He was also participating in a songwriter's guild.