Reading: The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole

Join us for a night of reading. With a vision of disability justice that seeks to heal the injuries of all injustices, poet and essayist Aurora Levins Morales reads from her latest book.

About the Book

collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales. Combining well-known excerpts from her books with out-of-print and harder to find ephemeral works and unpublished pieces, this collection weaves together stories of bodies, ecologies, Indigeneity, illness, travel, sexuality, and more. As Levins Morales reflects on her use of storytelling as a tool for change, she gathers the threads of lives and places sacrificed to greed and extraction while centering care for our individual bodyminds and those of our kin, communities, and movements. This comprehensive and essential collection provides an unprecedented window into the breadth and depth of the work of one of the most significant thinkers of our time.

About the Author

Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi feminist poet, essayist, visual artist, and activist. She is the author of nine books, including Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals, Kindling: Writings on the Body, Silt: Prose Poems, and most recently Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation and The Story of What is Broken is Whole. She identifies as a queer, chronically ill, and disabled elder. Her work bridges the most intimately personal and the global, weaving history, and ecology, and centering our bodies as sources of brilliance and sites of profound struggle in language that is genre-bending and lyrically accessible. She stewards 34 acres of subtropical rainforest in Maricao, Puerto Rico, where she gardens and keeps writing.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of English and The Latinx Project

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

244 Greene St room 106, 244 Greene Street, New York, United States