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Life Lines episodes
- #37 A message for Mothers’ Day
Your heaven lies at the feet of your mother
Elrico recites Surah Al-Ahqaf 46:15 in this piece and recounts a hadith (or saying) of the Prophet Muhammad.
// Elrico Fowler
3 min - 3 min
- 3 min
- 2 min
- 2 min
- The elephant in the room
One of us is angry. One of us is ashamed. Yet both of us hurt.
// Rodney Taylor, Sr.
2 min - #34 The elephant in the room
One of us is angry. One of us is ashamed. Yet both of us hurt.
// Rodney Taylor, Sr.
2 min - #33 Highrise, part two
Death Row has been an endless sorrow and hurt that’s refused to heal.
This is part two of a two part story. Listen to part one here.
6 min - Highrise, part two
Death Row has been an endless sorrow and hurt that’s refused to heal.
This is part two of a two part story. Listen to part one here.
6 min - #32 Highrise, part one
While most kids my age were thinking about prom or driver’s ed., I was getting an altogether different education as a ward of the state.
Part one of a two-part story. Listen to part two here.
7 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.