Nestle is one of a group of giant corporations seeking to privatize the biggest reserves of water, like the Guaraní Aquifer in South America, but many people around the world, from the Amazon to the Great Lakes, believe water should be part of

Lights

Dec 14th, 2017 6m 7s

Life in rural Puerto Rico has always included power outages, but the long blackout after Hurricane Maria is deliberate and cruel, making Hanukkah, and solidarity campaign to send solar lanterns to my home barrio especially poignant for me.

LFE Unobituary

Oct 8th, 2017 7m 50s

From the midst of Northern California's wildfires, I keep writing the devastation of my homeland, Puerto Rico, borrowing from Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary.

LFE-Honorable Harvest

Aug 8th, 2017 7m 53s

This episode explores the indigenous concept of honorable harvest as described by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book Braiding Sweetgrass, and how it affects my eating and also my writing life.

LFE-Fidel

Jul 24th, 2017 11m 58s

My perspective on Fidel, as a Puerto Rican child growing up in a time of Latin American dictatorships and political repression.

Radio Silence

Jul 14th, 2017 7m 20s

In honor of the mobilization for net neutrality, I write about some historical moments of radio silence, the creative ways people have responded to silencing and how we always need to be ready to boost our signals.

Delta

Jul 4th, 2017 9m 18s

California's Sacramento River Delta is an ancient marshland full of fish, small farms and wild waterfowl, and is threatened by plans to pipe water out of the Delta to subsidize unsustainable big agriculture. But California's entire economy is b

Letters from Earth: Birds and Bees

Jun 21st, 2017 7m 28s

This episode includes two shorter pieces, one on birdwatching and what feminist ornithology might offer us, and the other about solidarity with bees, who exist for their own purposes, and not just to get food on our tables.

Letters from Earth: Mothers

Jun 7th, 2017 5m 55s

I wrote this after the April 13th bombing of Afghanistan with what was referred to as "the mother of all bombs," reflecting on the stories I har as a child about the bombing of Spain during the Spanish Civil War, which gave rise to Picasso's Gu

Questions for the Media

Jun 6th, 2017 3m 33s

This poem was a response to badly skewed media coverage of the terrorist attacks, in one week, on Paris and Beirut. After it aired on Flashpoints, on Pacifica Radio, I was contacted by Al Jazeera to comment on the media bias.

Letters from Earth: Picking Raspberries

Jun 1st, 2017 8m 54s

Picking Raspberries is about my summer at the eastern edges of the Massachusetts Berkshires and New York's Hudson Valley, about Monsanto's conspiracy to privatize food, migrant workers in New England, how prisons are displacing family farms, ha

Introducing Letters from Earth

Jun 1st, 2017 4m 52s

Introducing Letters from Earth, a new environmental justice podcast by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer Aurora Levins Morales, exploring the natural and social landscapes of our time.

V'ahavta

May 29th, 2017 3m 22s

I wrote this poem after the Orlando massacre of LGBTQ people, mostly people of color, and half of them Puerto Rican. I needed to remind myself that imagining the possibility of winning, of creating the world we want, is part of our responsibil

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