Poems from a Year of Conversations
Celebrating the Voices of Our 2025 Publications
Tuesday, October 21 | 7 pm - 8:15 pm ET | Zoom
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.
Meet the Listener Poets
Gray Davidson Carroll is a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places.
Julia McDonald (She/They) is a Maine-based physician, writer, and international humanitarian. McDonald’s writing has appeared in mainstream news media as advocacy for patients and commentary on the intersection of politics and medicine.
Leigh Finnegan-Hosey is a spiritual care provider with experience working in both higher education and health care settings. She currently serves as the pediatric and reproductive health chaplain for a large academic medical center.
Sibihan Lawrence is a London-born Performance poet, Certified Listener Poet, Theatre maker, Arts Education Specialist, Storyteller. And a dismantler of master-narratives.
Sophie L. Schott is a medical student, researcher, and writer based in Houston, Texas. Her scholarly work bridges clinical education and advocacy, aiming to strengthen medical training through inclusive, justice-oriented curricula.
Yvette Perry is a lover of music and books, an amateur photographer, a collector of antique typewriters, and one fourth of a Marvel Cinematic Universe household that includes her husband and twin daughters.
Meet the Host
Ravenna Raven works as a Listener Poet in hospitals, healing centers, and at national healthcare conferences. Early childhood experiences with first responders, surgeons, and hospice nurses propelled her toward writing as a practice for healing and making meaningful connections with others.
Explore Our Anthologies
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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.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
In collaboration with Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice (MHHJ), Listener Poet Ravenna Raven presented at the Poetic Health Justice event on April 9th, an event honoring the lived realities of those impacted by cancer.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
On March 20th, The Good Listening Project (TGLP) had the honor of hosting Our Why, a poetry reading and story showcase for the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Patient Support Team.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Just Poetry is a live fundraiser and online poetry reading to honor and illuminate experiences in the healthcare community.
Sunday, February 26, 2023
This free community event was a live poetry reading and discussion with some of our Listener Poets and poemees on Zoom.
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
This community event was a live poetry reading and discussion with some of our Listener Poets and poemees on Zoom for Giving Tuesday.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Just Poetry was a live online poetry reading to honor and illuminate experiences in the healthcare community.
Friday, April 8, 2022
In this session, Listener Poets provided insights into good listening by sharing poems—and stories of the conversations that inspired them—written for people across the academic medicine community.
January 24-26, 2022
Executive Director Frankie Abralind was at the 2022 Healthcare Burnout Symposium in San Francisco. We offered virtual Listener Poet sessions to conference attendees.
July 18, 2021
Listener Poets Yvette Perry and Frankie Abralind were featured guests at the Typewriter Poets' Roundtable.
March 26, 2020
We hosted this webinar about how good listening can help healthcare workers amid COVID-19 challenges.
September 25-26, 2019
Frankie Abralind, Co-Founder of The Good Listening Project,talks about why and how to be a better listener.