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Ravenna Raven
"Listen Like a Poet" at the National ...

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.

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Ravenna Raven
The Good Listening Project Featured in ...

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.

Certified Listener Poet
Ravenna Raven
Voices Shared at Our Poetry Slam

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.

Certified Listener Poet
Ravenna Raven
Creative Writing at the University of Houston ...

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.

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Ravenna Raven
Hysteriography at Wooden Shoe Books

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.

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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.

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Spotlighting Caregivers at the 2026 Health Humanities Consortium Conference

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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.

Listening Together: Poems from a Year of Conversations

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.