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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
October 2025
“Reading this chapbook felt like stepping into a healing ritual—one that drew my body and spirit into full attention. With spare, piercing language, Mahaffey evokes the sensual, the sacred, and the sorrowful, reminding us how deeply we are shaped by what we dare to feel—and by the power of listening that is both attentive and attuned to what so often goes unsaid.” –Jenny Hegland, Executive Director, The Good Listening Project
September 2025
As Listener Poets, we're trained to attend to poemees' stories and imagery to create our poems for them. Sometimes the language poemees use is in the form of common phrases, and even clichés, which can sometimes can even hide poemees' deeper feelings and insights. In this Community of Practice, Listener Poets are invited to discuss this phenomenon and share strategies for turning "Hallmark card language" to rich metaphors.
September 2025
Join Dr. Julia McDonald, physician and Certified Listener Poet, for a meet and greet and book signing for their new poetry anthology, Hysteriography, that uplifts the lived experiences of people with uteruses (and those who love them) through poetry that is unapologetically honest, moving, and needed.