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Life Lines episodes
- 5 min
- #54 The darkness of nights past
Still the state of the country should be all the proof we need that something is surely amiss.
8 min - 0 min
- 2 min
- #51 Through the fog
The reflection in the mirror was an illusion, yet in my confusion I fell in love with the stranger.
// Rodney Taylor, Sr.
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- 1 min
- #48 Inside of outside
Mourning the loss of so much
Ravaged by the sweetness of memories// Rodney Taylor, Sr.
4 min - 0 min
- This is us
So we endure. As the days turn to weeks, the weeks to months, the months to years, we endure.
Playing off the title of the hit NBC series by the same name, Rodney Taylor, Sr tells stories of folks on Death Row praying and playing, mourning and laughing. They may be “victims of American indifference,” but their lives are dynamic and multifaceted, not governed by the single story most often told about death row.
// Rodney Taylor, Sr.
4 min
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.