Aillie McKeever is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum with over 20 years of experience in higher education. In her listening practice with students and poemees, she attunes to the energy beneath words and gazes—as Hafez suggests—with a full moon in each eye.
Anne Derouin
Anne Marie Wells
Avni Vyas
Beck Klassen
Beck Klassen (they/them) is a listener, a learner, a carer, and a writer. As a queer and trans/genderqueer/gender non-conforming/non-binary anarchist, they are regularly engaged in deconstructing oppressive social norms, both theoretically and in practice. Beck is a fierce proponent of prefigurative politics and spends their time infusing their values into how they move through the world.
Brook Wyers
Camilla Barber
Carina L. Dacer
Chanice Withers
Chidube Nkiruka
Chidube Nkiruka (1976–2024) was a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 8 alum whose work reflected his deep commitment to healing and justice. His fascination with rhythm and poetry was connected to its capacity to birth resilience, resistance, and recovery amidst those suffering from neglect, abuse, and addiction.
Chuck Behrens
Chuck Behrens has been an ordained minister since 1980, a hospice chaplain since 1994, and is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 8 alum. He is a current member of the National Speakers Association and is often asked to give keynotes and lead workshops on end-of-life care, spirituality, effective communication, holding space, and compassion fatigue.
Cortney Collins
Dawn M. Schocken
Devon M. Bremer
D'ete Blackshire
Dylan Klempner
D. F. Tweney
D. F. Tweney is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum, journalist, editor, poet, community builder, and publisher. He lives in the California Bay Area, where he helps tech companies tell their stories, takes care of his family, practices mindfulness in the Plum Village tradition of Vietnamese Zen, and swims in the Bay.