American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, Shortlist Reading the West Award
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Aaron A. Abeyta
Author of Four Poetry Collections & One Novel
Author of colcha; As Orion Falls; Rise, Do Not Be Afraid; & Letters From the Headwaters
Author of colcha; As Orion Falls; Rise, Do Not Be Afraid; & Letters From the Headwaters
American Book Award Winner
Colorado Book Award Winner
Governor's Creative Leadership Award
Finalist Premio Aztlan
Finalist Colorado Book Award
Colorado Poet Laureate Finalist, 2019
Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship
Author of colcha; As Orion Falls; Rise, Do Not Be Afraid; & Letters From the Headwaters
Author of colcha; As Orion Falls; Rise, Do Not Be Afraid; & Letters From the Headwaters
Author of colcha; As Orion Falls; Rise, Do Not Be Afraid; & Letters From the Headwaters
Video: Governor's Creative Leadership Award, 2017
Recent Work: http://www.hcn.org/issues/48.19/why-we-dont-mention-my-great-grandfathers-name
Video for Wildness: Relations of People & Place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_x4mT8xMl0&t=3s
Author of colcha; As Orion Falls; Rise, Do Not Be Afraid; & Letters From the Headwaters
contact me at: aaronabeytapoet@gmail.com
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Aaron A. Abeyta is a Colorado native, Professor of English and the former Mayor of Antonito, Colorado, his hometown. Abeyta is also the co-founder of The Justice & Heritage Academy
He is the author of five collections of poetry and one novel. For his book, colcha, Abeyta received an American Book Award and the Colorado Book Award. His most recent book, Ancestor of Fire is shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award. In addition, his novel, Rise, Do Not be Afraid, was a finalist for the 2007 Colorado Book Award and El Premio Aztlan. Abeyta was awarded a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship for poetry, and he is the former Poet Laureate of Colorado’s Western Slope, as named by the Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival. Abeyta is also a recipient of a Governor’s Creative Leadership Award for 2017. Abeyta was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate, 2019.
Aaron has over 100 publications including 'An Introduction to Poetry, 10th ed.,' Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, & Drama, 8th ed.' ‘Conversations in American Literature: Language, Rhetoric, & Culture’ ‘The Leopold Outlook’ ‘Colorado Central Magazine’ ‘The High Country News’ and numerous other journals.
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SOMOS - Taos Writers Conference, July 7th 2023
Aztlan Institute - Colorado State University, Pueblo, August 2nd 2023
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“There is no other voice that conjures the sky and keeps count of stars as human migrations, moving, fading, and bursting anew as Abeyta’s. Here he is standing naked and alone on the abandoned snow drifts and tierras, holding them as fallen angels and stellar evidence of our birthright - the luminous lands we claimed we would honor thirty-five years ago. Abeyta speaks with the voices of Nazim Hikmet, Jim Sagel, Allison Hedge-Coke and Albert Hunter, all lovers of the small earth and its colossal heart.” - Juan Felipe Herrera, Former United States Poet Laureate
...the reading and workshop, both generous in their dimensions. Full of light, images, humor, warmth (inside and outside the poems)—and the resonance that your four “homes” build.
-Veronica, Loveland
Your reading and workshop in Loveland was transformational.
-Beth
Publications
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Publications
colcha, University Press of Colorado, 2001. Winner of 2002 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and the 2001 Colorado Book Award for Poetry
As Orion Falls, Ghost Road Press, 2005.
Rise, Do Not Be Afraid, WordFire Press (Novel Re-Release), 2021. The 2007 release was a Premio Aztlan Literary Award Finalist and a Finalist for the Colorado Book Award
Letters from the Headwaters, Western Press Books, 2014
Tzimtzum, 5 Contemporary Poets Lend Us Their Hearts, (major contributor) Mercury Heartlink Press, 2013
Ancestor of Fire, Lithic Press, 2022 - Shortlisted for Reading the West Book Award
Wildness: Relations of People and Place, (contributor) University of Chicago Press, 2017 Conversations in American Literature: Language, Rhetoric, Culture, (contributor) Bedford St. Martins (Spring 2014)
Literature, an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama, (contributor) 8th, 9th, 10th ,11th & 12th Eds. Edited by X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia
An Introduction to Poetry, (contributor) 10th, 11th, 12th & 13th Eds. Edited by X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia
Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, (contributor) Edited by X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia
Literature, an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama Compact Edition (contributor) 8th ed. Edited by X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia
Open Windows 2006, An Anthology of Fiction & Poetry, Ghost Road Press (contributor) Winner of the 2006 Colorado Book Award
Comeback Wolves, Johnson Books, (contributor)
Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works, Johnson Books, (contributor)
“Wilderness in Four Parts or Why We Cannot Say My Great Grandfather’s Name” The High Country News November 14, 2016: Vol 48 Num 19.
Malpais Review, Autumn, 2015
“A Letter to Leopold Upon Reading ‘The River of the Mother of God’” The Leopold Outlook Magazine , Winter, 2015
“A Letter to the Men of Troy, Where I Explain a Few Things” Colorado Central Magazine, February, 2011
"Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Tortilla" Columbia University Press’s Internet Database The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
"Blackbirds, Hollow-Core Doors & Other Gifts" Colorado Central Magazine, December, 2006
"1,017,900 pounds" Open Windows, 2006 an Anthology of Poetry, Fiction, & Creative Non-Fiction
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2019 – Western Literature Association, Plenary Speaker, Estes Park, Colorado
2019 – Utah State Poetry Society, Annual Convention, Provo, Utah
2019 – Spring Environmental Symposium, Gunnison, Colorado
2018 - The National Institutes for Historically-Underserved Students at West Virginia University Parkersburg, sponsored by the WVU Parkersburg Foundation
2018 - National Federation of State Poetry Societies National Convention, Denver, Coloado
2018 – Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- 2018 – Arrowmont School of Arts, Pentaculum, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2017 - American poets, Loveland Public Library, Loveland, Colorado
2017 - Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado
2017 - Western Colorado Writers Forum, Grand Junction Colorado 2017 – Lithic Books, Fruita, Colorado
2015 – Wyoming Writers Council Inc., Keynote Address, Cheyenne, Wyoming
2015 – American Association of University Presses, Keynote Address, Denver, Colorado
2015 – Talking Gourds, Western Slope Poet Laureate Announcement, Telluride, Colorado
2014 – Open Bard Poetry Series, Ridgway, Colorado
2014 – Western State University, 25th Annual Headwaters Conference, Gunnison, Colorado
2014 – Morgan Community College Poetry Series, Ft. Morgan, Colorado
2014 – Columbine Poets Festival, Aurora, Colorado
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