Be Less Careful
Nancy Reddy, Cassie Mannes Murray, Gemma Hartley, Starr Davis, Priscilla Thomas, Erica Stern, PHL Poetry LFG!!!!, Emily Rapp Black, Samantha Paige Rosenunpacking the bad ideas that steal our joy // creative work & midlife reinvention
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a real art monster finishes her work
I’ve spent the last couple of months beset by an ongoing feeling of whelm. Not quite overwhelm, because that implies a crest and a fall, but just whelm. The image that keeps coming to me is a bathtub, filled to the overflow and threatening...
how to leave your life with just six suitcases
Hi friends! As I shared last year right around this time, one of the things I’ve been thinking about a ton is midlife reinvention—both the big things (divorce, marriage, career change) and the smaller shifts so many of us are making in this...
poet Erika Meitner on going feral at residencies and learning to “make a bit of Yaddo anywhere”
Hello there! Welcome to Be Less Careful, a newsletter about making space for creative practice in a busy life. Today we’ve got a special guest post in the tending section, which is a mix of essays and interviews about creative practice that...
happier at home (in Amsterdam!) with Snigdha Bansal, who’s discovered “joy in the sisyphean struggle of keeping house”
This is our third (!!!) edition of the new Happier at Home series. I’m excited about the variety of homes we’ve featured so far—from ’s compact Connecticut home full of young kids to the “modern treehouse” built for herself and her now-gro...
happier at home with Sue Deagle, who built a “modern-day treehouse” as her family’s haven after her husband’s unexpected death
Hi there! I’ve got a new interview in the Happier at Home series today. As I wrote last week, Happier at Home is a different kind of house tour–less about glossy photos and picture-perfect spaces, and more about how we want our homes to fee...
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obsessed with making space for writing in a busy life & helping you do that, too. newest \ud83d\udcda: THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH, St. Martin's 2025. essays in Slate, Romper & other places. author of Pocket Universe & The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood.
Cassie Mannes Murray is a writer, publicist, & former literary agent. She is messy and does not schedule her newsletters well. \ud83d\udc8c
Speaker, writing coach, and author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
Poet, essayist, and mother writing on justice, faith, and survival. Author of Affidavit (2025) and I Am Mostly Bad Blood (2026).
Priscilla Thomas (she/her). desi writer/editor. Pushcart and Best of the Net nom. founder & co-facilitator of Write Start, Camp Write Start, & CWS Harvest Week.
Writer & Mother. Debut book, FRONTIER: A MEMOIR AND A GHOST STORY, is out from Barrelhouse.
A newsletter highlighting the movers, shakers, and makers in Philly's ever-growing, ever-inspiring poetry communities. Submit info about your poetry, publication, or program to [email protected]. LFG \ud83e\uddbe\ud83e\uddbe\ud83e\uddbe\ud83e\uddbe
Writer, professor, editor, book wizard, tiny business owner. I write sad books but I’m really funny. @circeconsulting @craftschool www.craft-school.net
✍\ud83c\udffbwriter-editor-tutor-coach \ud83d\udcdabestselling anthology LIVING, TOGETHER out now from Beacon Press
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