Latasha Drax is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 6 alum, and is a self-published poet and writer from Brooklyn, New York. She uses her poetic voice for creative expression, advocacy, and awareness of social injustices.
Leigh Finnegan-Hosey
Lena Soo Hee Wood
Lena Soo Hee Wood is a certified nurse-midwife, clinical educator, listener poet, and mindfulness practitioner and teacher. Her work as a midwife is grounded in presence, reproductive justice, and a trust in the power of transformational change in her patients’ lives. She is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 12 alum.
Matt McBride
Mindy Shah
Michelle Petties
Monica Storss
Nancy S. Scherlong
Nancy S. Scherlong, LCSW, CHHC, SEP, CP, PTR/CJT, CM is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 8 alum and serves on the board of The Good Listening Project. She is owner of the psychotherapy, coaching and training business entitled Change Your Narrative LCSW PLLC. She is a corporate wellness educator, coach and trauma therapist.
Nicole "Nix" Demos
Rebecca Wilson
Robert Minicucci
Robert Minicucci is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum and lives in East Kingston, NH. His poems have appeared on NHPR.org/New Hampshire Public Radio and in The Raw Art Review: A Journal of Storm and Urge, the NH-based poetry zine Good Fat, and the Silver Birch Press blog series WEARING A MASK.
Sailaja Devaguptapu
Sailaja Devaguptapu is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 2 alum. She is a published poet, writer and researcher, wellness facilitator, designing and developing courses on Health Humanities; and an organizer and trainer for programs and workshops related to wellness, arts, writing & poetry in the context of healthcare and mental health.
Salaam Green
Salaam Green is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Birmingham, Alabama (2024–2026), a native of Greensboro, and founder of The Literary Healing Arts. A storyteller and healer, she is a Kellogg Foundation Racial Healing Facilitator and Alabama Humanities Foundation Road Scholar. She is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 1 alum.