Kyce Bello - Book Launch Readings Schedule

Local poet and Waldorf School parent, Kyce Bello, launches her debut book of poetry, Refugia, with readings in Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

“Strange how hard it is to speak to the future, to leave a / paper trail.” But this is what Kyce Bello’s Refugia does. These are poems of blooming and burning, poems of growth and decay, poems that still see beauty in a broken world. Bello is a poet to watch, and Refugia is a book we need in this moment.”

—Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones

Winner of the inaugural Interim 2018 Test Site Poetry Series Prize, Refugia is a bright and hopeful voice in the current conversation about climate change.

You are warmly invited to one of the upcoming readings celebrating the launch of Refugia:

Sep 15th @ 4pm at SOMOS in Taos with Barbara Rockman
Sep 19th @ 6pm at Collected Works in Santa Fe with Santee Frazier
Oct 13th @ 3pm at Bookworks in Albuquerque
Nov 3 @ 2pm at Op.Cit in Santa Fe with Anne Haven McDonnell

Kyce Bello’s poetry debut ponders what it means to inhabit a particular place at a time of enormous disruption, witnessing a beloved landscape as it gives way to “something other and unknown / growing beyond us.” Ultimately an exploration of resilience, Refugia brings to life the author’s home ground in Northern New Mexico and carefully observes the seasons in parallel with inter-generational cycles of renewal and loss.

These vivid poems touch upon history, inheritance, drought, and most of all, trees—be they Western conifers succumbing to warming temperatures, ramshackle orchards along the Rio Grande, or family trees reaching simultaneously into the past and future.

Like any wilderness, Refugia creates a terrain that is grounded in image and yet many-layered and complex. These poems write us back into an ecological language of place and underscore our most critical tool for survival: imagination.

Available from University of Nevada Press and IndieBound
Learn more at http://kycebello.com

About the Author
Kyce Bello’s poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, About Place Journal, Anomaly Literary Journal, The Raven Chronicles, Taos Journal of Poetry, and Sonora Review. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.