Nicole “Nix” Demos, a disabled inclusive educator for over 32 years, and now author, strives to educate on the importance of inclusion, disability identity, advocacy, equity, and belonging. She is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum.
Rebecca Wilson
Ravenna Raven
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.
Sharon Dardis
Sibihan Lawrence
Sophie L. Schott
Tara Waudby
Té Speight
Yvette Perry
Yvette Perry is part of the co-founding team of Listener Poets and serves as Health Equity Programs Lead. She is a lover of music and books, an amateur photographer, a collector of antique typewriters, and one fourth of a Marvel Cinematic Universe household that includes her husband and twin daughters.