A geese family, two youngsters, and a flute help revive Spoon Jackson’s inspiration.
Poet Behind Bars
Morning Parade
Spoon Jackson speaks of nature from behind bars.
Unnatural Desert: The End of Arts-in-Corrections
Spoon Jackson gives a glimpse into daily prison life and asks, “How can we heal without the arts?”
Life Without Parole – Limbo
Spoon Jackson contemplates his life without parole
The Struggle To Be
Loneliness is such a powerful feeling that it can often take away our desire to truly exist. Spoon Jackson reflects on this daily — behind bars.
New Folsom Prison Diary: April
Spoon Jackson’s view of the world from Folsom State Prison is framed by a 3″x3′ tall window.
Stolen: A Letter from a Prisoner Serving Life without Parole
Spoon Jackson does not define himself as a murderer, but by what he has done in the days since. How do you see him?
A Poet on the Writing Process
Spoon Jackson writes, “I believe art is waiting to come out when allowed the room to flow up.”
Locked Down for Having Dreadlocks
Injustices, large and small, abound in prison. California prison inmate Spoon Jackson, a teacher and poet, is wrongly identified as a gang member and placed on lockdown.
Go On: Support The Other Death Penalty Project
You can help raise awareness among policymakers of the cruelty of life without parole.
To Watch TV or Not
Spoon Jackson remembers the days before free TV pacified prison culture.
Too Cruel, Not Unusual Enough
Kenneth E. Hartman’s anthology sheds light on the other death penalty: life without parole.
A Prisoner’s Message to Youth on Gang Membership
After Rosanne Cash’s visit, Spoon Jackson receives an opportunity to speak to troubled youth from within prison.
The Poet in Prison Dreams
A lover of birds dreams he can fly and talk to animals … and that his human brothers and sisters might learn to forgive him.
Unrelenting: Mental Illness in Prison
After 35 years of incarceration, Spoon Jackson says, “I have never adjusted to being caged.”
Rosanne Cash Performs at Folsom State Prison
Forty years after the late musician Johnny Cash performed “Folsom Blues” in the Folsom Prison Library, his daughter returns and meets GMP poet Spoon Jackson.