Ernesto L. Abeytia
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Walton Center for Planetary Health 777 E. University Dr. #304AA Tempe, AZ 85287-2404
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Mail code: 2404Campus: Tempe
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Ernesto L. Abeytia (he/him) is a Spanish-American poet and teacher, with training in British, American, and Spanish literatures, Spanish language and culture, online teaching, rhetoric and composition, and multi-genre creative writing. He specializes in bilingual poetry and poetics, modern and contemporary American poetry, and Latinx poetry.
His poems and essays appear in Nine Mile, Lake Effect, DIALOGIST, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Zócalo Public Square, and PBS NewsHour, among other venues. He has presented research and led workshops at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, ASU’s Día de Los Niños/Día de Los Libros Celebration, ASU’s Young Adult Writing Program, and Phoenix Fan Fusion.
He is the recipient of various recognitions and awards, including fellowships and grants from the Colgate Writers Conference, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and Arizona Humanities, where he is a Humanities Scholar.
Ernesto has served as Series Editor for the 2021 and 2022 Digging Press Poetry Series, Assistant Editor for Digging Press’ Chapbook Series, and Assistant Poetry Editor at Digging Through The Fat literary journal. He is a frequent panelist/reviewer for arts and humanities grants and awards, and has been a recurring judge for Arizona State University’s Annual Writers’ Place Awards, the Arizona Poetry Out Loud Regional and State Finals Competitions, and the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers’ Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Poetry Contests.
He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, an MA in English from Saint Louis University, and an MA in Anglo/North-American Cultural and Literary Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain. He has experience teaching university-level courses in Film, Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Composition and Rhetoric, and English Literature.
His current focus is on supporting efforts around Public Interest Technology, Principled Innovation, and Responsible Innovation within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.
- M.F.A. Creative Writing, Arizona State University
- M.A. English, Saint Louis University
- M.A. Anglo/North-American Cultural and Literary Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid
- B.A. English & Creative Writing (Double Major), University of Arizona
Ecopoetics, arts and humanities, multicultural perspectives, cultural studies, nature writing, creative writing, Spanish language and culture, Spanish film, American film, poetry, poetics, Latinx poetry, bilingual poetry, diversity, equity and inclusion, DEI, higher education, public interest technology, responsible innovation, principled innovation, use-inspired research
Poems
“L’Oceanogràfic de València,” Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (Winner, 2023 Best Book Award)
“Remembrance: el Canal de Castilla (Two),” Lake Effect
“Three Teenage Boys in Cowboy Hats and Wrangler Jeans,” DIALOGIST
“Remembrance: el Lago Gento,” Nine Mile
“The Cries of La Corrida” and “On a Train Heading North to Bilbao,” Prairie Schooner
“Winter Hatchlings for the New Year,” Zócalo Public Square (Runner-up, 10th Annual Zócalo Poetry Prize)
“A Country Room in Northern Spain,” Metonym
“Everyday Basics for Spanish Cooking, Two,” Crab Orchard Review
“a lanky cowpoke,” Haiku Expo: Arizona Inspired Japanese Poetry
“Anarchy on the Edge of a Hairline,” AZ Central Poetry Spot
“The Port City of Cádiz, Andalucía,” Fugue (Runner-up, 2018 Ron McFarland Prize for Poetry)
“On The Semi-Frozen Sanabria,” Zócalo Public Square
“Four AM, Walking Home in Madrid,” The Shallow Ends
“My Lover is a Robot,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry (Reprinted in Poems2Go)
“Scrolling Names on a News Ticker,” The Brillantina Project
“Pamplona,” The Albion Review (Featured on PBS NewsHour)
Other Writings
Digging Press Poetry Series 2022, Series Editor
“Reflections on Poetry / Reflexiones sobre la poesia,” Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making (An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics)
“Raising Their Hands,” To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers
“As the Traveling Poet / Como el poeta viajero: Nathalie Handal’s Poet in Andalucía,” Digging Through The Fat
“In Like Company: The Salt River Review & Porch Anthology,” Hayden’s Ferry Review
Courses
2023 Fall
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Summer
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Spring
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Fall
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Summer
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Spring
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Fall
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Summer
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Spring
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2020 Fall
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2020 Summer
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2020 Spring
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2019 Fall
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |