RASTROJO
RASTROJO
Rastrojo: A Collective Poetics for Forest Futures
Rastrojo is a poetry and experimental poetics magazine rooted in the generative force of forest regrowth—rastrojo—emerging after disturbance. Born from the ongoing ecocidal destruction and colonization of forests and their diverse life-worlds, Rastrojo is a publication of the collective Paz con la Selva. We are also in the process of launching an independent small press, also called Rastrojo, to further cultivate and amplify these vital voices and visions.
Rastrojo is more than a magazine: it is a living, collective practice. We are committed to conjuring poetic resistance and germinating collective resurgence, together with forests and the communities who defend them. Our work is oriented toward the cultivation of reparative relationality—language and practice that repair, recompose, and reimagine the conditions for decolonized forest futures.
What is Rastrojo?
Rastrojo means forest regrowth—life returning after devastation, the force of the forest and its living relations coming together to regrow futures.
We see forests as living entanglements: diverse worlds decomposing and nourishing each other through relations and languages of death folding into life.
In the forest, language is relation. Germination, decomposition, and resurgence are all forms of language—living, embodied, and collective.
Our Mission
To curate and publish poetry and experimental poetics that intervene in and respond to forest destruction.
To foster poetic experiments and collaborations with forests themselves—listening, performing, filming, and writing with and from the forest.
To cultivate a reparative, resurgent poetics that resists ongoing colonization and destruction, opening the possibilities for forest futures grounded in relationality and resurgence.