Jessica Barksdale InclanWhy 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…4 min read·Mar 4, 2021----
Jessica Barksdale InclanHow A Writing Assignment Turned Into a Sex TalkEvery 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…4 min read·Feb 26, 2021----
Jessica Barksdale InclanTime Warp PartyWhen 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…3 min read·Feb 22, 2021----
Jessica Barksdale InclanMaking Coffee, Writing NovelsPeople who haven’t had coffee shouldn’t make coffee.3 min read·Feb 19, 2021--1--1
Jessica Barksdale InclanAs 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…4 min read·Feb 17, 2021----
Jessica Barksdale InclanPutting Together a Poetry CollectionOne 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.3 min read·Feb 12, 2021----
Jessica Barksdale InclanReimagining ShakespeareAs 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…2 min read·Feb 5, 2021----
Jessica Barksdale InclanHow to Create ChaptersWhen 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…4 min read·Jan 29, 2021----