August 2026

This summer marks the third year of our partnership with the KNN, as The Good Listening Project continues to capture voices across the Healthcare Graduate Education Continuum. Together, we are now creating the third volume of our collaborative anthology, with this year’s theme, The Poetry of Human Flourishing, exploring the experiences, values, and relationships that sustain those who care for others.

Saturday, August 8
12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET

Stuck on a poem that just isn’t… working? You’ve tried to revise it, but nothing seems to be doing the trick? Join Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, Anne Marie Wells, for Poetry Re-Play, the revision workshop that gives you permission to act your shoe size and invoke your inner child to use puzzles, games, and make-believe to look at your poem with new eyes.

August 2026

The following poem and story is an excerpt from the book See Us, Know Us; Profiles of Disability by Jennifer Chassman Browne, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum, forthcoming in October 2026. This book contains profiles of 30 people with disabilities. Each profile contains a portrait, a narrative biography, and an origin story and poem.

July 2026

What can deep listening and poetry reveal about flourishing that ordinary conversation cannot? Learners, Listener Poets, and members of the Kern National Network for Flourishing in Health (KNN) community will join together for an evening of poetry in the KNN FOREST where we explore this question together.

July 2026

On July 26, 2026 from 10 AM to Noon PT, CLP Alum, Anne Marie Wells (Cohort 9) will be facilitating Syllables of a Name Never Called: A Virtual Creative Writing Workshop for Those Impacted by Pregnancy Loss. Registration is free with donations welcome.

July 2026

Since January of this year, Certified Listener Poet alum Anne Marie Wells (Cohort 9) has been putting her Listener Poet skills to good use in collaboration with a project called "Conceptualizing 'The Patient Voice' in Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)."

July 2026

The following poem and story is an excerpt from the book See Us, Know Us; Profiles of Disability by Jennifer Chassman Browne, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum, forthcoming in October 2026. This book contains profiles of 30 people with disabilities. Each profile contains a portrait, a narrative biography, and an origin story and poem.

July 2026

We're delighted to share a poem by Nicole "Nix" Demos, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum.

June 2026

We’re delighted to share that The Good Listening Project presented our workshop, "Listen Like a Poet: The Transformative Power of Listening in Healthcare," at the 2026 National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT) Conference in Chicago, facilitated by Listener Poets Nancy S. Scherlong, Leigh Finnegan-Hosey, and Ravenna Raven.

June 2026

Listener Poet Joseph M. Jablonski, Cohort 1 alum, had the opportunity to sit with LoudounNow photojournalist Douglas Graham through the Inova Schar Cancer Arts and Healing Program, at the newest location for our longest-standing partnership offering in-person listening sessions.

June 2026

Last month, our community gathered for our very first Poetry Slam and open mic on April 30th, an evening filled with powerful voices and connection. Listener Poets and community members shared original work spanning a breadth of experience.

June 2026

LaShaune P. Johnson, PhD, a Clinical Professor at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston, has been informally involved with a unique collaboration. This collaborative effort highlights the powerful intersection of the arts and healthcare.

June 2026

In April, Dr. Julia McDonald, physician and Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, was hosted by the Reproductive Health Access Project Benefit for Abortion Liberation Fund. Held at Wooden Shoe Books in South Philadelphia, the event featured poems and origin stories from Julia's collection, Hysteriography: Poems about Uteruses, Menstruation, Pregnancy, Abortion, Loss, and Childbirth.

June 2026

The following poem and story is an excerpt from the book See Us, Know Us; Profiles of Disability by Jennifer Chassman Browne, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum, forthcoming in October 2026. This book contains profiles of 30 people with disabilities. Each profile contains a portrait, a narrative biography, and an origin story and poem.

June 2026

Susan Thompson Hingle, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 13 alum, has had two pieces published over the past several months: "When Love Doesn't Stay" in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and "Aware, Guided, and Grateful" in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

June 2026

In May 2026, LaShaune P. Johnson, PhD, had a poem published in The ADVANCE Journal. The mission of the journal is to provide a forum in which to publish peer-reviewed scholarship related to institutional transformation concerning inclusion, equity, and justice in higher education.

June 2026

Camilla Downs, future CLP cohort member, was selected as an Honorable Mention for The Third Annual Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize 2026 for South Florida Poetry Journal.

May 2026

By Yvette Perry, PhD

This session, “Holding Space for Caregivers through Poetry: A Workshop to Foster Compassionate Deep Listening,” addressed the conference theme ("Health Justice: So it Goes?") by amplifying the voices—often unheard—of informal caregivers within the health care system.

May 2026

On April 15, the pastoral ministries team at Brooksby Village Senior Living in Peabody, Massachusetts, gathered with The Good Listening Project Executive Director Jenny Hegland for our “Listen Like a Poet” workshop.

May 2026

By Kathryn West

It is often the case that a person’s first encounter with The Good Listening Project (TGLP) feels more like a happy twist of fate than an inevitability. This was certainly true for Marius Birlea, MD, of University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus; he first came to know TGLP by chance during the difficulty, stress, and uncertainty of COVID-19’s early days.

May 2026

We’re excited to share recent updates from, Sailaja Devaguptapu, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 2, whose work continues to bridge poetry, art, and wellbeing across communities.

May 2026

Alumni Leigh Finnegan-Hosey, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9, was invited to share their poetry in the 2026 VCU Georgianne Ginder Poetry and Prose Celebration, which recognizes the healing power of poetry in healthcare.

March 4-7, 2026

The Good Listening Project attended AWP26 in Baltimore.

February 19-21, 2026

The Good Listening Project attends several conferences this spring focused on graduate medical education, including The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)’s annual conference for medical educators.

March 4-6, 2026

The Good Listening Project attends several conferences this spring focused on graduate medical education, including The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)’s annual Residency Leadership Summit.

March 4-7, 2026

We’re excited to share that The Good Listening Project will have a table at the AWP Bookfair this March 4-7, 2026 in Baltimore. We’ll be connecting with the wider literary community, sharing our work, and highlighting books and voices from our Certified Listener Poet community.

April 8-11, 2026

We’re pleased to announce that our workshop proposal, “Holding Space for Caregivers through Poetry: A Workshop to Foster Compassionate Deep Listening” has been accepted for this year’s Health Humanities Consortium Conference, Health Justice: So it Goes?

April 15-19, 2026

We’re excited to announce that our workshop proposal, “Listen Like a Poet: The Transformative Power of Listening in Healthcare” has been accepted for this year’s National Association for Poetry Therapy 2026 Conference: Poetry as a Pathway to Peace.