Be Less Careful
Nancy Reddy, Cassie Mannes Murray, Gemma Hartley, Starr Davis, 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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good creature Jenny Browne on her new book I AM TRYING TO LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD
Hello there! Welcome to Be Less Careful. This is a good creatures interview, a series that explores the intersection of caregiving and creative practice.
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happier at home with Ivana Greco, a homeschooling mom making space for 4 kids in 1400 sq ft
Hi there, friends! Today I’m excited to share a new interview, in a new series, Happier at Home. For the new book I’ve been working on, I’m thinking about home, and how we can craft a more expansive, welcoming understanding of what home is...
Ryan T. Pozzi on what we can learn from the failure and floundering before our great artists’ big success
Hello there! Welcome to Be Less Careful, a newsletter about making space for creative practice in a busy life.
Today we’re featuring Ryan T. Pozzi whose new book The Mess That Made Them: How History’s Greatest Artists Failed, Floundered, a...
Whistling Girls and Crowing Hens: On Modesty, Ambition, and Shame
Hi, all! I have been privately celebrating something I’ve been thinking of as LOG OFF AUGUST, where I try to mostly log off. It’s been great, highly recommend. My brain feels so fresh and clear and mostly internet-free.
spiritually, I’m st...
Summer School: erasing the past, writing the future with Starr Davis
This was such a good conversation about craft and form, structuring a collection of poems, writing right through the hard things, and so much more. I didn’t plan it this way, but it felt like the perfect companion to our previous Summer Sch...
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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).
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\udcdaLIVING, TOGETHER debut anthology coming from Beacon Press 7/14/26
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