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Jessica Barksdale Inclan

Why Not Compare?

My favorite part about the 1989 film Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is the motley crew of historical figures the boys pick up for…

Mar 4, 2021

Mar 4, 2021

Being Civil

Being Civil

Mar 3, 2021

Mar 3, 2021

How A Writing Assignment Turned Into a Sex Talk

Every semester — save for those during the pandemic — I ask my students to go out into the world to hear a writer who is working on the…

Feb 26, 2021

Feb 26, 2021

Time Warp Party

When I was little, I believed that adults did very certain things depending on their gender, not that I knew what gender meant at the time…

Feb 22, 2021

Feb 22, 2021

Making Coffee, Writing Novels

People who haven’t had coffee shouldn’t make coffee.

Feb 19, 2021

Feb 19, 2021

As a student and then as a teacher, I’ve had some rough times figuring out when to stop or start…

Don’t know your Virgil? Alas! Can’t read Chaucer in the original Middle English? Be damned. But class after class, we were given a mixture…

Feb 17, 2021

Feb 17, 2021

What About a Little Conflict?

Conflict

Feb 17, 2021

Feb 17, 2021

Putting Together a Poetry Collection

One of my friends recently asked me how to put a poetry collection together. I told her I would think about it and get back to her.

Feb 12, 2021

Feb 12, 2021

Reimagining Shakespeare

As a reader from the get-go, an English major even before I knew I was, I always had my idea of what William Shakespeare looked like, kind…

Feb 5, 2021

Reimagining Shakespeare

Feb 5, 2021

How to Create Chapters

When I set about writing my first novel, Her Daughter’s Eyes, I was truly unsure how to craft a chapter. What was a chapter, exactly? I…

Jan 29, 2021

How to Create Chapters

Jan 29, 2021

Jessica Barksdale Inclan

Jessica Barksdale Inclan

Jessica Barksdale Inclán's novel What The Moon Did was published in 2023. Her third poetry collection, Let's End This Now, is forthcoming in 2024.

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