August 2025

Salaam Green, an alum of the first cohort of the The Good Listening Project’s Certified Listener Poet course, has released a poetry collection. The Other Revival is a story of homecoming. This collection of poems revolves around a house built in Harpersville, Alabama in 1841. Thirty-nine people enslaved by Samuel Wallace, the owner of the property, constructed the house and worked the land.

August 2025

Dylan Klempner, a member of Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11, has launched Creative for Health – a newsletter and growing community space dedicated to the intersection of creativity and well-being.

August 2025

Nancy Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, CP, PTR/CJT-CM, brings a deep well of experience – and heart – to The Good Listening Project’s Board of Directors. A psychotherapist, educator, and long-time expressive arts advocate, Nancy believes that “creative resonance” – the feeling of being seen or understood through art – is a “powerful complement to any healing process.”

July 2025

Current Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 member Dr. Kevin Dieter is the creator of Walking Each Other Home, a thoughtful resource for those interested in compassionate end-of-life care.

July 2025

We’re proud to share that current Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 member, Nicole (Nix) Demos, has a powerful piece featured in the latest issue of Unapologetically Us: Disabled, Proud, and Resilient – a zine by the disability community, for the disability community.

July 2025

Jenny Hegland and Yvette Perry delivered a workshop to medical school faculty at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) in Rootstown, Ohio in May.

June 2025

Listener Poets Dr. Julia McDonald and Dr. Erin FitzGerald representing The Good Listening Project (TGLP) offered a powerful presence at a recent national healthcare conference by facilitating in-person listening sessions. Many shared that TGLP’s focus on provider wellness and resilience filled a much-needed gap in the conference experience.

June 2025

By Ingrid Berg

A poem by Yvette Perry, TGLP Listener Poet was featured as part of an ethics education event for a large healthcare organization on April 29, 2025. “Living With Sickle Cell Disease” was the theme of the Spring 2025 “Ethics on the Big Screen” presentation held at the Benson Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska, sponsored by CommonSpirit.

June 2025

This volume uplifts the lived experiences of people with uteruses (and those who love them) through poetry that is unapologetically honest, moving, and needed.

May 2025

By Geva Thole

Patients in Emplify Health’s Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit are often there because they’ve lost touch with themselves. Some need to reconnect with their values. Others are trying to forgive themselves or contend with a difficult diagnosis. No matter the issue, participating in a Listener Poet session has shown to be helpful.

May 2025

Congratulations to Sailaja Devaguptapu, a member of the Certified Listener Poet Cohort 2, whose poem "The Falling Leaves The Growing Tree" is featured on the cover of Soul Connection, a quarterly multilingual literary magazine by Guwahati Grand Poetry Festival. Be sure to spend a moment with her beautiful, transformative poetry.

March 2025

Monica Storss, a TGLP scholarship recipient and member of our current Certified Listener Poet training cohort and current PhD student, created The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine as a way for people to experience poetry through cutting-edge technology.

March 2025

On Friday, March 28th, Cedars-Sinai hosted the Henrietta Lacks Symposium, a special event that also highlighted the release of a new anthology featuring poems by Listener Poets from The Good Listening Project (TGLP).

March 2025

On March 20th, The Good Listening Project (TGLP) had the honor of hosting Our Why, a poetry reading and story showcase for the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Patient Support Team.

March 2025

By Robert Minicucci

“Palliatively Speaking” Host Toby Campbell, MD, speaks to clinicians from all parts of palliative care—physicians, nurses, social workers, scientists, and chaplains. His guests bring guests—a great unexpected switch up that makes for a more interesting conversation. I felt a part of the conversation, as if his guest was speaking to me directly.

March 2025

By Ingrid Berg

The TGLP community would like to thank Nancy Eddy, outgoing board president, for her service to the board and the mission of TGLP. Eddy, who will remain on the board, has been an active member for the last four years.

March 2025

Certified Listener Poet Erin FitzGerald, Cohort 9, invoked The Good Listening Project in a recent AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine) self care forum, in which she led palliative experts through a breathing exercise and reflection, and introduced the concept of generous listening.

February 2025

Congratulations to Julia McDonald, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9, for a piece of creative non-fiction published in the January 2025 issue of The Sun and a poem accepted for publication in March by JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association).

February 2025

The 10th Cohort of the Certified Listener Poet course officially began on Monday, January 27th, as we welcomed nine new candidates into the program.

November 2024

“Narrative & Lyric Health at Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine”
by Scripts Fellows Bevin O’Connor and Nick Templeto

Giving Tuesday 2023

We loved receiving an outpouring of your deepest hopes for the future of healthcare. We hope you enjoy seeing how our communal "Poem for Our Future" reveals our shared dreams.

April 2023

By Frankie Abralind

“Each custom poem we write is reflective of what the poemee shares during their session. We don’t try to fix anything. In many cases, the Listener Poet is simply paraphrasing or quoting exactly what they heard the person say.”

January 2023

By Yvette Perry

“In the session that resulted in the poem, ‘Libation,’ I felt a great sense of hope and meaning from the poemee even though the main topic of the story she shared involved loss.”