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Jeffrey DeLotto

Dr. Jeffrey DeLotto is an English Professor in the School of Arts and Letters at Texas Wesleyan University

Jeffrey DeLotto

Professor of English
Polytechnic United Methodist Church 245
817-531-4909
jdelotto@txwes.edu
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Courses Taught

  • English 1302: Composition & Rhetoric II
  • English 2308: Introduction to the Profession of English
  • English 2324: Introduction to Creative Writing
  • English 2328: Exploring British Literature
  • English 3310: Advanced Writing
  • English 3319: Survey of British Literature II
  • English 4319: Topics in British Literature (Gothic Lit, Manifestations of Evil, etc.) English 4337: Shakespeare
  • English 4348: Topics in Creative Writing (Creative Nonfiction, Persona, etc.)
  • English 4350: Independent Study (Literature and Creative Writing Genres, etc. upon
  • approval)

Education

  • Ph.D., 19th Century British Literature, Florida State University, 1981
  • M.A., English, Florida State University, 1974
  • B.A., English, Departmental Honors, University of Florida, 1973

Personal Biography 

Jeffrey DeLotto, Professor of English at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, teaches writing and British literature. His poems, essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, and he has published a chapbook entitled Voices at the Door, the Southwest Poets Series winner from the Maverick Press; Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems; and more recently, Voices Writ in Sand: Dramatic Monologues and Other Poems, from Lamar University Press.

He is also one of the writers included in 8 Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the American Southwest, from Baskerville Publishers. Jeffrey also serves as Editor for SCOL: Scholarship and Creativity On Line, A Journal of the Texas College English Association; Co-editor for CEACreative, an on-line journal of the College English Association; a grower of vegetables; and skipper on the mutinous family sailboat. 

Books
  • Voices Writ in Sand: Dramatic Monologues and Other Poems. Beaumont, TX: Lamar University Press, 2012. Print. 
  • Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems. Fort Worth: Texas Wesleyan University Press, 1997. Print. 
  • Voices at the Door, Southwest Poets Series. Eagle Pas, TX: The Maverick Press, 1995. Print.
Presentations

Selected national and regional conferences from 2017 back to 2014 only:

  • “Writing the Historical Novel,” Fort Worth Woman’s Club, February, 2016. 
  • “A Selection of Poems” (poetry reading), Conference of the Texas College EnglishAssociation, March, 2016; San Antonio, TX.
  • “Writing Creative Nonfiction” (reading), Conference of College Teachers of English,March, 2016; San Antonio, TX.
  • “The Wife” (fiction reading), the Annual Conference of the College English Association,March/April, 2016; Denver, CO.
  • “Writing the Historical Novel,” University College Day, Texas Wesleyan University,April, 2016.
  • “Dramatic Monologues” (presentation/reading), Annual Luncheon, Fort Worth PoetrySociety, June, 2016.
  • “Making the Bow” (fiction reading), Langdon Weekend and Review of the Arts in Texas,September, 2016; Granbury, TX.
  • Poetry Reading, Local Writers Day, West Library, Texas Wesleyan University, October,2016.
  • “A Selection of Poems” (poetry reading), Conference of the Texas College EnglishAssociation, March, 2015; League City, TX.
  • “A Two Hawks Story” (fiction reading), Conference of College Teachers of English, March, 2015; League City, TX.
  • “Following the Water” (fiction reading), the Annual Conference of the College EnglishAssociation, March/April, 2015; Indianapolis, IN.
  • “Finding a Wife” (fiction reading), Langdon Weekend and Review of the Arts in Texas,September 2015; Granbury, TX.
  • “Horses in Poetry” (invited poetry reading and presentation), PSY 2399, Special Topics:Equine Therapy and Mental Health, Texas Wesleyan University, September, 2015.
  • “Not Your Grandmother’s Poetry” (poetry reading), Mitchell-Reed Community ofLearners, Texas Wesleyan University, October, 2015.
  • “A Two Hawks Mystery” (fiction reading), 11th Native American Symposium, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK, November, 2015.
  • “Why Teach Creative Writing?” (presentation), Lamar University Press Literary Festival, Beaumont, TX, November, 2014.
  • “Introducing Creative Writing into Other Courses” (presentation), Lamar University PressLiterary Festival, Beaumont, TX, November, 2014.
  • “Following the Water” (fiction reading), Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Granbury,
  • September, 2014.
  • “Selected Poetry” (reading), Wildcatters Exchange Arts Festival, Fort Worth, TX, April,2014.
  • “Selected Essays” (creative nonfiction reading), the Annual Conference of the CollegeEnglish Association, Baltimore, MD, March, 2014.
  • “Selected Poetry” (reading), Conference of College Teachers of English, Lubbock, TX,March, 2014. 
  • “Texas Innocents Abroad…er, Aboard” (creative nonfiction reading), Conference of theTexas College English Association, Lubbock, TX, March, 2014.
Publications

Publications from previous five years only:

  • “A Trinity Flood, Fort Worth, Texas, July, 1876” (poem). Texas Weather: An Anthology of Poetry,Short Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. Beaumont, TX: Lamar University Press, 2016. Print.
  • “Birds of the Storm God” (fiction). Texas Weather: An Anthology of Poetry, Short Fiction, andCreative Nonfiction.
  • “Yellow Jackets” (poem). Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry and Arts Magazine 8:4(August 2016), 25. Print.
  • “Rapture at the EZ Pawn, East Rosedale” (poem). Cattlemen & Cadillac: Poets of theDallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Dallas: Dallas Poets Community Press, 2016.Print.
  • “Birds of the Storm God” (fiction). Texas Weather: An Anthology of Poetry, ShortFiction, and Nonfiction. Beaumont, TX: Lamar University Literary Press, 2016.Print.
  • “A Trinity Flood, Fort Worth, Texas, May, 1876” (poem). Texas Weather: An Anthology.
  • “Oh, Sunflower, for Kate” (poem). Kate’s Library. Fort Worth: Nu Zeta Chapter, SigmaTau Delta, 2016. Print.
  • “Following the Water” (short fiction). Concho River Review: Literature from Texas andBeyond 29:2 (Fall 2015): 5-13. Print.
  • “The Sheep Docking, Government Canyon, Wyoming, July, 2013” (poem). ThirdWednesday: A Poetry Journal 8:3 (Spring 2015): 67-68. Print.
  • “Rapture at the EZ Pawn, East Rosedale” (poem). Wilderness House Literary Review 10:1 (Spring 2015). http://www.whlreview.com.
  • “Another Day, Morning, East Fort Worth” (poem). Wilderness House Literary Review10:1 (Spring 2015).
  • “City Pigeons, On the Wires, January, Fort Worth” (poem) Wilderness House Literary Review 10:1 (Spring 2015).
  • “Little Man, Ron Martin’s Marina, Clewiston, Florida” (poem). CCTE Studies 69(October 2014): 74-75. Print.
  • “Lines Begun a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Visiting the Banks of the WyeDuring a Tour, August 4, 1998” (poem). CCTE Studies 69: 76. Print.
  • “William Blake’s Marker, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, July 25, 2004” (poem)CCTE Studies 69: 77. Print.
  • “At the Zoo, Fort Worth” (poem). CCTE Studies 69: 78. Print.
  • “Three Grackles, Texas Wesleyan University, Late Spring” (poem). CCTE Studies 69:79. Print.
  • “Missed, Finally, Los Angeles, February 16, 2011” (poem). CCTE Studies 69: 80.Print.
  • “Babyland, Rosehill Cemetery” (poem). Red River Review 50 (Winter 2014). www.redriverreview.com.
  • “Glenn Hardaway, Again” (creative nonfiction). Windhover: A Journal of ChristianLiterature 18 (Spring 2014): 55-58. Print.
  • “Two Hawks Kindles a Morning Fire, Natchitoches Confederacy, ca. 1810,” and “AKarankawa, Near Garcitas Creek, Matagorda Bay, October, 1684, (poems).
  • “Where No One Else Has Gone Before”: Proceedings of the Ninth NativeAmerican Symposium. Durant: Southeastern Oklahoma State U.P., 2013. Print.
  • “Finding One Thing in Another: A Review of Ann Whitehouse’s The Refrain.” GentlyRead Literature, Reviews and Essays. Spring, 2013. Gentlyreadliterature.org.
  • “Cardinals, Sandy Lane, Fort Worth, Texas,” (poem). Texas Poetry Calendar 2014.Austin, Dos Gatos Press, 2013. Print.
  • “A Gutting on the Camino Real,” (short fiction). Concho River Review 27:1 (Spring2013): 7-13. Print.
  • “An Appearance of…Noctiluca,” (creative nonfiction). The Chattahoochee Review 33:1(Spring 2013): 132-125. Print.
  • Voices Writ in Sand: Dramatic Monologues and Other Poems. Beaumont, TX:Lamar University Press, 2012. Print.
  • “Poems of Jeffrey DeLotto,” 8 Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the AmericanSouthwest, ed. Daniel Williams. Fort Worth, TX: Baskerville Publishing,2012. Print.
  • “Estelle Turner, Age 94, Cooper Villa Retirement Village, Arlington, Texas,”(poem). Red River Review. November, 2012. www.redriverreview.com.
  • “Gary, 6:00 p.m., Richland Hills, Texas”(poem). The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly.November 12-18, 2012. 5-2crimepoetryweekly.com.
  • “Eleven Weeks Along”(poem). Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems ofMotherhood. Los Angeles: Quill and Parchment Press, 2012. Print.
  • “A Karankawa, Near Garcitas Creek, Matagorda Bay, October, 1684”(poem).Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium. Durant:Southeast Oklahoma State University Press, 2012. Print.
  • “Two Hawks Kindles a Morning Fire, Natchitoches Confederacy, ca. 1810”(poem).Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium.
  • “Shooting Straight about Paragraphs: They Are Not What We Say They Are,”(composition studies). CEA Forum (Winter/Spring 2011): 78-88.