Poetry, Imagination, and the Language of Place

| Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Location: La Farge Library

Address: 1730 Llano Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Registration: [tinyurl.com/KyceBelloPoetry](http://email.librarycustomer.org/ls/click?upn=u001.fAJAaj8etT0PmoHrEgP-2BVf8CkTOFrk26C7ysku0hrDH1pSYxdJ8a-2F9tVHRRRP24HueZC9zxo5rS-2B1MHWhsdmK30KC2U84J3tufZSS0Rc9ys-3D9ElC_KcXc0ThJdvXLgxL-2FqROY9etYfGKkZv6bEJh-2FoEht2TaQmoFtMniI81WL7p-2FiFl6xhOzhjRzHv9NJZWHaQxxSCH2Njnyg-2BhWa1MHB7XM-2BG4L1npBGzITYU5ITBp50HCKzuh7LIMUgE552C4K7dtbB-2FEq1r0A1PqqcfwmfaFI0-2BvfpSYQJGdkgtOFTha-2FEHM9vM-2FDysdV-2FgOpWB8it3h8rbUVedy2rxI6coAxPc-2BGvA0chEJYa8UOAhpfku1vmy8UteBAO7dsfCciCwxKmVI5KQ-2FFv33c0dvw3ws14uAiOsyjjA0gxV-2BXpkZBipbHTTbt3ONZA2Y0lc0hmJIC2OxhfPaRqi8ZhGvCzr5KNXw6G1n1gmzwQoTNyUD68p5WcjCD6bWPM9WJUh-2FS-2FjLEfdgvnAuq-2FuXoVPtFALyRmuEXY7-2Fwb2byYrTrCYPX4J8XDf3DZI9yoJpfMiOSLMhJ3CbIj7w-3D-3D)

Join us for a talk by local poet Kyce Bello as she discusses her poems, which explore the intersection between language and landscape. In addition to a reading, she will discuss her writing techniques, including 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. Bello 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.