Spoon Jackson
Born in 1957 in Barstow, California. At 19 he became involved in a domestic dispute that resulted in a murder and was sentenced to life without possibility of parole.
Autumn 1985, Spoon began a 4-year poetry course at San Quentin state Prison; prisoners, staff and poets from the outside began calling him “poet.”
Spoon has written poetry, plays, novels, tales, short stories and the auto-biography “By Heart,” awarded in PEN-USA's prison writing contest. 2010 he published his book of poems “Longer Ago.”
Spoon’s friends and supporters collect signatures under a petition to give him second chance.
Past events
- 26.10.2018, 20:00 - 22:00, Akademia Sztuki, Let’s talk film - Rainer Komers & Spoon Jackson
Films
- Barstow, California76’
The documentary “Barstow, California” is recording life & landscape in the Mojave Desert. It's the 3rd film in the trilogy “The American West” (the other two films: “Nome Road System” & “Milltown, Montana”) about places in the sparsely populated areas of the American West. To the trilogy’s style of “landscape listening" is added the voice of Spoon Jackson (an internationally-acclaimed, Barstow-born prisoner/poet) reading passages from his autobiography dealing with his youth & life in the area.