An Evening with Poet Kyce Bello

Join us for a talk by Kyce Bello as she discusses her poems, which explore the intersection between language and landscape. Her practice as a writer focuses on one of the most critical tools for survival in a time of ecological crisis: imagination. 

Her debut poetry collection, Refugia, received a New Mexico Book Award, and was winner of the Test Site Poetry Prize. 

Her second collection, Far Country, attempts to create a map of the unknown, traveling to a realm in which worlds both seen and unseen are fused into a rich tapestry of lyric exploration and wonder.

The poet, herbalist, and nurse holds an interdisciplinary degree in Southwest Studies and Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico, and earned an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. 

She also edited the award-winning anthology The Return of the River: Writers, Scholars and Citizens Speak on Behalf of the Santa Fe River, a work of literary activism. Her writing has been published in Poem-a-Day, Boston Review, Terrain, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. 

She writes the occasional blog Old Recipe for a New World, where she explores creativity, motherhood, and the natural world.

For accommodations such as translations, ASL interpreters, or disability needs, please email library@santafenm.gov or call the Library.