Following forest disturbance, seeds sprout, and the forest returns.
Rastrojo is the forest regrowth following disturbance. It indicates destruction and the force of the life of the forest to transform, opening the possibilities for differential forest futures.
Rastrojo
Welcome to Rastrojo, a literary revista dedicated to the generation of a re(in)surgent poetics for the defense of forests. Rastrojo emerged in response to the ecocidal destruction and ongoing colonization of forests and their diverse life-worlds. It contributes to the cultivation of regenerative grounds for decolonized forest futures through poetic witness, resistance, and collective resurgence.
re(in)surgent poetics
Forests form living entanglements of diverse life-worlds decomposing each other and the forest itself through temporal relations of death folding into life. Grounded in the diverse temporalities and relations of the other-than-human life-worlds of the forest, a re(in)surgent poetics embodies the force of the life of the forest to resist ongoing colonization and destruction, and regrow forest futures.
Rastrojo is an annual online publication committed to curating and publishing poetry for the defense of forests. We invite poetic, sonic, filmic, and cross-genre creative writing committed to witnessing the ongoing colonization and ecocidal destruction of forests, fomenting poetic resistance, and germinating collaborative resurgence together with forests and their diverse other-than-human life-worlds that open the possibilities for decolonized (forest) futures.
We will open a call for submissions to our inaugural issue soon.