December 2025
By Robert Minicucci
With the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI), where does poetry fit in? How it is being influenced (or swayed) by the changing and growing digital environment we live in?
Congratulations to Julie Jenson
Pre-Order Why Poetry Matters in Healthcare
November 2025
This collection brings together a unique intersection of narrative medicine, reflective practice, and poetic response. Centered on a live listening session between a practicing neurologist and a Certified Listener Poet, these poems were written by members of Cohort 11 of the Certified Listener Poet Course.
Listening Together 2025 Event Recap
CLP Cohort 12 Wraps Up, Cohort 13 on the Horizon
November 2025
Certified Listener Poet Cohort 12 is finishing their practicum and gearing up for their celebration, marking the close of a meaningful journey in listening and poetry. Cohort 13 kicks off in February 2026 with a new 1-week intensive format, offering an immersive introduction to the practice.
Where the Light Enters with Kelsey D. Mahaffey
November 2025
Join Kelsey D. Mahaffey, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 5 on Tuesday, November 4 from 3 - 4pm ET, where we'll explore the power of words to illuminate what feels hidden. Together we’ll write and share poetry that captures shadow and light, finding voice, clarity, and connection along the way.
The Good Listening Project's Origin Story, Part I
TGLP has earned a 2025 Candid Gold Seal of Transparency
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.