March 2025
On Friday, March 28th, Cedars-Sinai hosted the Henrietta Lacks Symposium, a special event that also highlighted the release of a new anthology featuring poems by Listener Poets from The Good Listening Project (TGLP).
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.
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
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.