Stanley Russell "Spoon" Jackson (born August 22, 1957 in Barstow, California) is an American prisoner and poet serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence.
A short documentary, Waiting for Godot in San Quentin, was produced about the making of the play by Global Village for The Beckett Project, directed by John Reilly and Melissa Shaw-Smith.
[4][5] Spoon served over 12 years in California State Prison, Sacramento (New Folsom), where he was active as a teacher's aid and later had his own writing classes in the Arts In Corrections programs.
Since then, Spoon has written plays, poetry, novels, fairy tales, short stories, essays, memoir and he frequently writes articles for magazines.
[8] "Words of Realness", a suite for chorus and orchestra by Swedish composer Stefan Säfsten based on Jackson's poems, premiered on October 5, 2008 in Kista, Stockholm.