Current Projects 2020
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. In December 2019 I returned, with my tiny house, to live here.
Finca la Lluvia is my home, It's also what I think of as a story farm. I am getting connected with the agroecology movement, growing organic vegetables, and plan to grow medicinal plants, mushrooms and perhaps raise tilapia and chickens, but what I'm really growing here is possibility. A sense of sovereignty.
Between earthquake swarms and the global pandemic, many plans have been delayed, but I intend to broadcast web based talks and workshops, collaborate with people in many places, teach courses and produce podcasts, and of course continue writing, all from the place I love most on earth.
Finca la Lluvia is my home, It's also what I think of as a story farm. I am getting connected with the agroecology movement, growing organic vegetables, and plan to grow medicinal plants, mushrooms and perhaps raise tilapia and chickens, but what I'm really growing here is possibility. A sense of sovereignty.
Between earthquake swarms and the global pandemic, many plans have been delayed, but I intend to broadcast web based talks and workshops, collaborate with people in many places, teach courses and produce podcasts, and of course continue writing, all from the place I love most on earth.
Most Recent Books
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. It was released in August, 2019.
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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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 and prepares us to fully participate in the hard and hopeful work of stopping climate collapse. We have 14 partner organizations, and in April, 2020 received a major grant from RiseUp! to support the work.
You can learn a lot more and read samples of my new liturgical writing 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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