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Life Lines episodes
- #105 A bucket of chickenI could tackle the whole world like Atlas, with greasy lips and a full stomach.0 min
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- #103 Carrying my side of the plexiglassAlmighty Creator, although I’m not worthy, grant me the peace of awakening within the warmth of all of your splendor.0 min
- #102 Conversation with a dear friendSo what we came to find out, basically, is that life is worth living.0 min
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- #100 The timestretcherIt's like having a pot dropped over your head and a wooden spoon is pounding the rhythm of the Star-Spangled Banner into your eardrums. You know the tune so well, but you just don't want to hear it.0 min
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- #98 ‘Tough on crime’ policies endanger the publicMedia reports have cultivated the misperception that the casualties of prison officials is a new trend in violence, not a boiling point of failed policies and frustrations.0 min
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About Life Lines
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Life Lines is an audio journal of poetry, spoken word, and other creative writing by men on Death Row, USA. Contributors live on Death Rows in North Carolina and Tennessee.
Life Lines is about connection. It’s about finding surprising spaces to share endangered, beautiful life. It’s about recognizing our power and our powerlessness to give and take life.
We feature three new pieces each week, words which we hope invite communion, however limited and imperfect, with those struggling to live inside state prisons.
Because of state laws restricting access to prisons, the authors record these poems by phone. As you listen carefully, let the line static become a reminder of all the lines – race, class, iron bars and barbed wire – we’ve constructed between ourselves. If we allow them, these pieces can open new, shared spaces for us in spite of these boundaries, if only for a moment. Take a chance with us: listen.