Rastrojo: A Collective Poetics for Forest Futures

Rastrojo is a forest media press and experimental poetics revista rooted in the generative force of forest regrowth—rastrojo—emerging after disturbance. Emerging in response to the ongoing ecocidal destruction and colonization of forests and their diverse life‑worlds, Rastrojo is a publication of the collective Paz con la Selva and an imprint dedicated to creative works and writing in the defense of forests.

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, images, sounds, and practices that repair, recompose, and reimagine the conditions for decolonized forest futures through forest‑based media and experimental poetics.

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—and we understand these as forms of forest media.

Our Mission

• To curate and publish poetry, experimental writing, and other forest media that intervene in and respond to forest destruction.

• To foster poetic and media experiments and collaborations with forests themselves—listening, performing, filming, sounding, 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, listening, and resurgence.