February 2026
This year, we’re offering four opportunities to become a Certified Listener Poet, welcoming new cohorts each season as we continue to grow this community of listeners.
Ways to Experience a Listener Poet Session
Introducing our new Listener Poets!
Going Forward Together: Reflective Poetry as a Catalyst for Collective Action
February 2026
By Yvette Perry, PhD
The Good Listening Project facilitated the closing session of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland last November. Yvette Perry, Listener Poet and Health Equity Programs Lead, led the session: “Going Forward Together: Reflective Poetry as a Catalyst for Collective Action.”
Sailaja Devaguptapu, CLP 2, Serves as Judge for INVICTUS and Juror for Art Neureau
Redefining Silence: How Listening Builds Community for Justice-Impacted Leaders
February 2026
By Latasha Drax
In November 2025, I had the privilege of facilitating a customized workshop, “Listening Leaders: Building Rapport and Community by Listening,” for the Ready TECH Hire program. The workshop moved beyond traditional communication, exploring how holding space, solidarity, and the art of silence serve as essential tools for effective leadership.
The Lonely Tidings
February 2026
Congratulations to Certified Listener Poet Sailaja Devaguptapu, Cohort 2, for the publication of her poem “The Lonely Tidings,” which was published in PHRAME by SD Gupta School of Public Health, Indian Institute of Health Management Research University. The poem reflects the experiences shared by a palliative medicine physician.
A New Year of Listening
Caregivers: We Want to Hear Your Story
A Community that Continues to Grow
January 2026
This past year, our community deepened and expanded in meaningful ways – made possible by the generosity of our donors and the care, creativity, and commitment of our Listener Poets, alumni, and collaborators. Together, we continue to carry this work forward into new spaces and shared practices of listening.
Stories Shared, Voices Amplified
January 2026
In 2025, we partnered with healthcare organizations across the country to help amplify the voices of people working and receiving care within healthcare and caregiving spaces. Each collaboration reaffirmed our belief that listening is relational and archival: these poems hold stories that deserve to be remembered.
Brimming with Gratitude
We’re Grateful for Your Giving
Celebrating Together: Watch our 2025 Poetry Reading
Congratulations to Cohort 12 and Welcoming Future Cohorts
The Good Listening Project attends End Well
December 2025
We’re proud to share that The Good Listening Project team recently attended the End Well Conference 2025 in Los Angeles – joining a rich convening of voices dedicated to how we live, how we die and how we care for one another. The conference brought together thought-leaders, clinicians, advocates and artists in a one-day exploration of truth, technology and transformation in end-of-life care.
New Partnership between The Good Listening Project & Grace House Akron
December 2025
By Kathryn West
Though The Good Listening Project (TGLP) and Grace House Akron weren’t designed with one another in mind, their new partnership makes it seem like they very well could have been. Their collaboration is just a few months old and already having an important impact on those involved.
Doing is Being
December 2025
A new blog post by Kevin Dieter
CLP alum Kevin Dieter, M.D., FAAHPM, HMDC reflects on his meaningful connection with The Good Listening Project, beginning as a poemee at the 2023 AAHPM Annual Assembly, then completing Listener Poet training with Cohort 11 this summer, and recently volunteering as a poemee once again.
Listening, Learning, and Healing: My Journey to Poetry
December 2025
By LaShaune Johnson
In October 2025, I participated in a panel celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Medieval/ Renaissance major at Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. During the panel, I was asked a question I’ve gotten a lot: How did a girl who grew up listening to hip hop end up as a Med/Ren major?
Collaboration and photography
December 2025
A new blog post by Dylan Tweney
This summer, my friend Janne-Pekka Manninen, a Finnish journalist and photographer, began a three-month artist’s residency in Berlin. He invited me to follow along with his process as a sort of satellite contributor. Neither of us really knew what this collaboration would mean, except that he was inviting me to respond to his photography with poetry or writing.