deaths
March 23, 2011
Rosario Morales, Puerto Rican poet and writer (born 1930)
Rosario Morales
Rosario Morales was a Puerto Rican author and poet. She is best known for her book Getting Home Alive which she co-authored with her daughter Aurora Levins Morales in 1986. She was also significant within the Latina feminist movement and the Communist Party. She describes her own complicated identity in her poem "I am what I am", “I am Puerto Rican I am U.S. American… I am Boricua as Boricuas come… I am naturalized Jewish American… I am what I am. Take it or leave me alone."
March 23
March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 283 days remain until the end of the year.