Poet "Spoon" Jackson
Stanley "Spoon" Russell Jackson is an American poet serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence since 1978. Currently incarcerated at California State Prison, Solano. We are collaboration with Spoon thanks to our friend and artist Anja Ryden (Sweden) on recordings, drawings and a podcast. Jackson’s most recent projects are a poem published at prisonjournalismproject.org, “A Love Poem: COVID-19,” and Long Time Gone: The Prison Music Project with Ani DiFranco and Zoe Boekbinder. He is a poet and radio producer at Uncuffed: Stories from Solano State Prison, featured on KALW 91.7FM out of San Francisco. More poetry, fairy-tales and drawings: https://www.spoonjackson.org/
Spoon Poetry from Prison
Spoon Poetry from Prison
This recording was presented during the BLEND event we organised in Brussels with artists from over 15 countries. Here Spoon recites some of his poems and unveils the backstage behind "prison communications".
