December 2025

In November we celebrated Certified Listener Poet Cohort 12, as we gathered for a beautiful Practicum reading filled with compassion, insight, and the quality of deep reflection that continues to shape this community. Congratulations to our newest Listener Poets!

December 2025

We’re proud to share that The Good Listening Project team recently attended the End Well Conference 2025 in Los Angeles – joining a rich convening of voices dedicated to how we live, how we die and how we care for one another. The conference brought together thought-leaders, clinicians, advocates and artists in a one-day exploration of truth, technology and transformation in end-of-life care. 

December 2025

By Kathryn West

Though The Good Listening Project (TGLP) and Grace House Akron weren’t designed with one another in mind, their new partnership makes it seem like they very well could have been. Their collaboration is just a few months old and already having an important impact on those involved.

December 2025

A new blog post by Kevin Dieter

CLP alum Kevin Dieter, M.D., FAAHPM, HMDC reflects on his meaningful connection with The Good Listening Project, beginning as a poemee at the 2023 AAHPM Annual Assembly, then completing Listener Poet training with Cohort 11 this summer, and recently volunteering as a poemee once again.

December 2025

By LaShaune Johnson

In October 2025, I participated in a panel celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Medieval/ Renaissance major at Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. During the panel, I was asked a question I’ve gotten a lot: How did a girl who grew up listening to hip hop end up as a Med/Ren major?

December 2025

A new blog post by Dylan Tweney

This summer, my friend Janne-Pekka Manninen, a Finnish journalist and photographer, began a three-month artist’s residency in Berlin. He invited me to follow along with his process as a sort of satellite contributor. Neither of us really knew what this collaboration would mean, except that he was inviting me to respond to his photography with poetry or writing.

December 2025

By Robert Minicucci

With the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI), where does poetry fit in? How it is being influenced (or swayed) by the changing and growing digital environment we live in?

December 2025

Congratulations to Julie Jenson, a member of the Certified Listener Poet Cohort 8, who recently had two poems published in Indelible, Issue #9: Awakening.

November 2025

This collection brings together a unique intersection of narrative medicine, reflective practice, and poetic response. Centered on a live listening session between a practicing neurologist and a Certified Listener Poet, these poems were written by members of Cohort 11 of the Certified Listener Poet Course.

November 2025

Certified Listener Poet Cohort 12 is finishing their practicum and gearing up for their celebration, marking the close of a meaningful journey in listening and poetry. Cohort 13 kicks off in February 2026 with a new 1-week intensive format, offering an immersive introduction to the practice.

November 2025

Join Kelsey D. Mahaffey, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 5 on Tuesday, November 4 from 3 - 4pm ET, where we'll explore the power of words to illuminate what feels hidden. Together we’ll write and share poetry that captures shadow and light, finding voice, clarity, and connection along the way.

November 2025

The Good Listening Project was invited to present at VCU Health’s annual Good Grief Conference, which highlights the presence and impact of grief in health care spaces. Our session, “Listening Like a Poet: Practice for Meaning-Making and Resilience in Bereavement Care,” aligned beautifully with this year’s theme: resilience in relationships.

November 2025

The Good Listening Project was honored to be part of the September Women in Medicine Conference at Hofstra University in NYC. Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum Gray Davidson Carroll was on-site holding Listener Poet sessions with attendees.

November 2025

We are thrilled to highlight Rebecca Wilson, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11, who recently served as the emcee and a keynote speaker at The Next Level Private Practice Summit in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

November 2025

On June 21, 2025, Listener Poet Latasha Daneille Drax of Cohort 6, debuted her listening poetry table at The Power of Your Voice: Connections and Change event held in Charlottesville, Virginia.

November 2025

The poem "I Pretend to Eat" by Anne Marie Wells, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9, was featured as part of Poetry Super Highway's Poet of the Week.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

We’re thrilled to share six poems with you — written by several amazing alumni of our Certified Listener Poet course — Sibihan Lawrence, Gray Davidson Carroll, Julia McDonald, Leigh Finnegan-Hosey, and Sophie Schott — and by longtime Listener Poet Yvette Perry, who also served as Lead Project Editor for two of this year’s publications.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Each anthology represents countless conversations between Listener Poets and the people they met in healthcare communities — moments of story, memory, and meaning transformed into poems.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Join us on Tuesday, October 21 at 7 pm EDT on Zoom. This 75-minute event will celebrate the five anthologies published by The Good Listening Project in 2025. Each anthology represents countless conversations between Listener Poets and the people they met in healthcare communities — moments of story, memory, and meaning transformed into poems.

October 2025

The Good Listening Project was honored to once again take part in the annual KNN conference in Minneapolis this year. We also shared copies of our newly published KNN Anthology: Stories of Residents & Fellows, which was available to all participants.

October 2025

In this episode of Red Transmissions Podcast, Jenny Hegland shares her journey from mental health counseling and disaster response to co-creating spaces of healing through The Good Listening Project – a global community of listener poets dedicated to humanizing healthcare.

October 2025

We’re honored to welcome Dr. Max Nanes to The Good Listening Project’s Board of Directors. Max is a hospice and palliative medicine physician with a background in emergency medicine, where he practiced before transitioning into his current role. With training in both medicine and creative writing, he brings a perspective that blends clinical practice and storytelling.

October 2025

This month, we’re excited to highlight Elizabeth Torres – also known as Madam Neverstop – who recently gave the keynote Listening Between the Lines: Poetry as Pathways for Healing, Empathy, and Social Change at the 2025 Creative Bridges Conference, hosted by Lapidus International.