Ruge el bosque

Ruge el bosque [The Forest Roars] is a collaborative project about literature & ecology. Our goal is to initiate transnational & intercultural conversations about the role of literature from Abya Yala/Afro-/Latin America in the context of ongoing climate crisis. We seek to underscore how the region’s poetic production shapes emerging politics & literary ecologies, as well as how poetry works, especially in Indigenous communities, to revitalize endangered ecosystems & languages.

Together comprising a series of regional ecopoetry anthologies, each volume of Ruge el bosque is conceived of as a site of preservation & resistance for specific communities & territories. The first volume, Ruge el bosque: ecopoesía del Cono Sur (Caleta Olivia, 2023), highlights Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay & their borderlands & includes poetry written in Guaraní, Spanish & Portuñol. The second volume, Ruge el bosque: ecopoesía de Mesoamerica (in progress), compiles poetic expressions written in the languages of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize & Costa Rica. Subsequent volumes will focus on poetry from the Guianas & the Caribbean (vol. 3), the Andean states (vol. 4) & the Amazon Basin (vol. 5).

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In conjunction with the anthology, Ruge el bosque writes & produces ECOTECA, an experimental podcast available on our main website or through Spotify. 

Ruge el bosque is a collaboration between Valeria Meiller, Whitney DeVos & Javiera Pérez Salerno.

Learn more about the project here.

banner image © 2023 Analía Iglesias for Ruge el bosque

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