About the Collective

Paz con la Selva is a collective of writers, creative practitioners, Indigenous communities, poets, researchers, and forest defenders. Our work is collaborative, community-led, and grounded in listening to forests and those who defend them. We are committed to decolonizing our gaze, reclaiming lost and endangered languages and relations, and tending to the conditions for resurgence and collective futures.

Rastrojo (Press & Revista) grows out of this collective work, and is closely linked to Forest Futurities (forestfuturities.com), as a forest media space where poems, images, films, sounds, and experimental texts gather as part of ongoing struggles for forest futures.

Editorial Ethos

• We honor the forest as a living relation, not a resource to be extracted or a landscape to be mapped.

• We recognize the foundational role of Indigenous communities in cultivating and sustaining forests over generations, and in shaping the languages and media through which forests are known.

• We believe that poetic practice—listening, ritual, performance, and experimental writing—can repair ruptured relations and conjure the force of resurgence.

• Our poetics is insurgent, reparative, and collective, rooted in the grammar of convivir: living together with forests and their diverse worlds, and making forest media with rather than about them.

On Relationality, Language, and Dedication

We are inspired by the practice of círculo de la palabra—word-sharing gatherings that honor the spirit and ancestral methodology of bringing language to life collectively. While we do not formally represent this practice, we dedicate Rastrojo to all those who gather in circles, in forests, in resistance, to listen, speak, and repair relations through the living word.

Rastrojo is a collective act of tending, repairing, and conjuring forest futures through language, relation, and poetic insurgency—on the page, in sound and image, and in other forms of forest media. Join us in the work of resurgence—planting, listening, and composing the grammar of living forests.

Editorial Team

Kristina Van Dexter
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Writer, researcher, and defender of forests; based in Colombia, tending to Paz con la Selva, Forest Futurities, and Rastrojo Press & Revista.