HeyJaredMaya C. Popa
Writing on the inner conditions of sustainable creative work
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Poems for Your Weekend (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Albert Camus described autumn as “a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”This week marked the autumn equinox (from the Latin “aequus,” equal, and “nox,” night). It’s one of the two times a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator, resulting in nearly equal daylight and darkness at most locations on Earth. It’s a day of astronomical balance—the Earth’s axis tilts neither toward nor aw
Nothing Has Gone Wrong With Your Draft (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,On the heels of yesterday’s post about rejection, I wanted to share a talk I gave on the last day of HFU’s low-residency MFA in Philadelphia this August, along with the two revision techniques I’ve found most useful in my own process. I called the session “Taking It Home,” hoping it would serve as a reminder of the work that comes after the bursts of growth that conferences, MFAs, and workshops aim to provide.Inspiration is easily accessed when you’re
On Rejection Season & Adjusting Your Factory Settings (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,It’s rejection season, as last week’s CWC Office Hours confirmed. Many writers are hearing back from multiple publications at once, and naturally “no” makes up the majority of the responses. We talked at length about the questions rejection brings up: Is it the work? Is it the market? Is there something useful to learn from this, or is the best next move simply to send the work someplace else? How do we recover without letting this be an unhelpful pronouncement on the merits of our
Two New Benefits for Paid Subscribers (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I’m excited to introduce a new paid feature I have been working on for the past few weeks (as usual, thank you, tech for making what seemed straightforward take twice as long as anticipated). I recognize that choosing to pay for a newsletter subscription is a big deal, and I’ve always believed that mine should offer genuine value to writers at every stage. That’s partly because the goal of this newsletter is to champion poetry, yes, but more importantly, to help you take your own wr
Poetic Commons Replays (7-9) (opens the original)
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Poetic Commons is a free year-long book club (January 2026 - December 2026) devoted to the pleasure of reading poetry in company. Each month, we gather to discuss a single collection: the poems that surprised us, the questions the book raises, and the ways that we were inspired and challenged by our reading. The reading list is idiosyncratic by design: these are books I missed in my own reading journey, books I’d heard spoken about and kept meaning to read, and books that shaped me and that I wa
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