Join poets Aurora Levins Morales and Mónica Gomery for an evening of poetry and conversation to celebrate Levins Morales’s new book, Rimonim! Called a “prophetic, life-centered guide for times of tumult and struggle” by Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel and a “sacred offering” by Jews For Racial & Economic Justice executive director Audrey Sasson, Rimonim is the perfect book around which to gather in community.
“Rimonim” Virtual Book Launch
About the book
Rimonim is a richly woven tapestry of poetry meant for use. From a time of rupture and uncertainty, beloved movement poet Aurora Levins Morales brings us a prayer book for the street, for reconstituting the future through our gestures in the present. In these poems of devotion and protest, Levins Morales speaks across and through time with an undeniably prophetic voice. Written in collaboration with various communities looking to honor, unravel, and rebuild Jewish liturgies, Rimonim is a book of lyric in the most immediate sense—of poems that are meant to be read and sung. Rooted in tradition and flowering in the tumultuous present, these poems will both accompany specific Jewish practices and offer inspiration for the sacred work of human liberation, where joy meets justice.
Ultimately, these forty-nine poems honor the forty-ninth year, when it was taught that everything in the land would begin anew, everything redistributed and freed, when the people would see that everything on this earth was “ready to wake and bloom / just under the skin of what is.”
