November 2025
On June 21, 2025, Listener Poet Latasha Daneille Drax of Cohort 6, debuted her listening poetry table at The Power of Your Voice: Connections and Change event held in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Poet of the Week for Poetry Super Highway
Liminal Spaces and the Moral Imagination
November 2025
by Ingrid Berg, TGLP Board Chair
Our Board Chair, Ingrid Berg, recently published a thoughtful review of Dr. Anna DeForest's book Our Long Marvelous Dying (2024), which features an unnamed narrator seeking a fellowship in palliative care during the COVID pandemic, in Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal.
Meet the Listener Poets for "Listening Together: Poems from a Year of Conversations"
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.
"Listening Together" Poetry Reading Program
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.
TGLP at the KNN Conference: Poetry, Reflection, and Connection & Introducing Our Newest Anthology
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.
Curiosity, Intentionality, and the Transformational Power of Listening Poetry
Board Spotlight: Max Nanes
October 2025
We’re honored to welcome Dr. Max Nanes to The Good Listening Project’s Board of Directors. Max is a hospice and palliative medicine physician with a background in emergency medicine, where he practiced before transitioning into his current role. With training in both medicine and creative writing, he brings a perspective that blends clinical practice and storytelling.
Listening Between the Lines: Keynote Address by Listener Poet Elizabeth Torres
“Revival” by Yvette Perry for Tupelo Press’s 30/30 Project
October 2025
In September, our very own Listener Poet Yvette Perry took part in Tupelo Press’s 30/30 Project – a poetry marathon and fundraiser where poets write 30 poems in 30 days. Yvette joined seven other poets in this creative challenge, contributing daily poems that highlighted her artistry and commitment to the craft.
No Fault of Water by Kelsey D. Mahaffey
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
New Anthology: Amplifying Voices of Black Women Physicians in Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Programs
September 2025
Introducing the The Good Listening Project poetry anthology, Amplifying Voices of Black Women Physicians in Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Programs. Each poem and origin story in this collection was created as the result of a partnership between The Good Listening Project and Health4Equity, an initiative of the WPP Racial Equity Programme.
A Revival Circle and Constructing the Revival Poem
Writing Sideways: Turning Clichés to Rich Metaphors
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.
Meet the Author of Hysteriography, Dr. Julia McDonald
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.
Board Spotlight: Kay Abesamis
September 2025
This month, we’re delighted to welcome Kay Abesamis to The Good Listening Project’s Board of Directors. Kay brings nearly a decade of experience in oncology and blood cancer research at Pfizer, where she focuses on developing new therapies for leukemia, prostate cancer, and bladder cancer.
Introducing the Summer 2025 Certified Listener Poets, Cohort 11
September 2025
We’re delighted to introduce our recent graduates – the members of Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11! Each poet brings unique gifts, experiences, and perspectives to the practice of listening and poetry. Now, as they join our Community of Practice, they carry this work forward in diverse and meaningful ways, weaving it into their lives, professions, and communities.
Q&A with the Next Generation
September 2025
One of our information sessions took a special turn when we were joined virtually by a high school class from Pittsburgh, PA. Their teacher was teaching a course on Human Flourishing and asked if his seniors could sit in on the session, learn about the healing and medicinal possibilities of poetry, and pose questions to our Listener Poets.
The Good Listening Project Featured in Red Door Magazine
September 2025
We’re honored that The Good Listening Project was featured in Red Door Magazine’s latest issue, #39 – Impermanence, published by Elizabeth Torres, a recent graduate of Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11. You can find an article about our work on page 32, along with a moving poem by Listener Poet Gray Davidson Carroll.