November 2025
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Reflections from End of Life University Podcast
The Good Listening Project Presents at VCU's Good Grief Conference 2025
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.
Reflections from the Women in Medicine Conference
Keynote Speaker at The Next Level Private Practice Summit
The Power of Your Voice: Connections and Change
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.