Tue, Apr 07
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Poets Jami Macarty and Kyce Bello
“ Winning books engage the perilous conditions of life in the twenty-first century, as they pertain to issues of social justice and the earth. They demonstrate an ethos that considers the human condition in inclusive love and sympathy, while offering the same in consideration with the earth.”
Date, Time & Location
Apr 07, 2026, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Jami and Kyce, who are both Test Site Poetry Prize Winners, will be in conversation with artist Cynthia Pirloul-Broshi following readings of their works.
Jami Macarty
The Long Now Conditions Permit: Poems, ($17, paperback)
Winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Prize, The Long Now Conditions Permit confronts the persistent brutalities of our world through poetry that both names and resists the injustices shaping it. From the quiet sorrows of everyday slight to the overwhelming crises of ecological collapse and gendered violence, these poems document what is occurring—the horrendous and the intimate, the anguished and the magnificent.
With ethical attention, Jami Macarty’s collection engages the political, ecological, and personal forces that shape and mark our lives, offering an ecofeminist ethic of care as an antidote to extractive capitalism and patriarchal norms. Each poem meditates on power, insists on articulating what is being…