Current Projects 2019
Finca La Lluvia
In 1951, my young parents, Rosario Morales and Richard Levins, bought an abandoned coffee farm in Barrio Indiera Baja, Maricao, Puerto Rico. This fall I will be returning, with my tiny house, to live there. Finca La Lluvia will be my home, but also a base from which to cultivate agriculture, energetic and cultural sovereignty. I plan to be there (knock on wood) by December, and to broadcast numerous web based talks and readings, and continue writing from the land I love most on earth.
New Books to Promote
In the fall and winter of 2018 I wrote Silt, a poetic prose collection mapping the natural and social landscapes of the Mississippi River system and the Caribbean Sea, weaving ecology, history and visions for the future. I expect it to be in print by late summer, and I'll begin giving readings.
Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals
I am pleased to announce the publication of a revised and expanded edition of my book Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (Duke University Press), which weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice, bringing clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language. With 21 new or extensively revised essays.
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New or Reborn Projects
Rimonim is a collectively supported poetic residency for me to write new Jewish liturgy that centers Indigenous Jews and Jews of Color and global (diasporic) Jewish cultures. You can learn a lot more about it here.
Unruly is the blog of the Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Caucus (JOCSM) working in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace. We feature a wide range of material and are developing big plans for the near future. I'm currently working on a series about Zionism and Israeli agricultural imperialism in Latin America. Check us out here.
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