This person radiated gratitude and hope. She shared that she discovered she was expecting a son just before receiving a lung cancer diagnosis at the age of 31. Despite the challenges, she expressed profound gratitude for living in a human body and reflected on her transformative journey of self-discovery.

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.