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 Marie Wells is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum and an award-winning and Pushcart-nominated poet as well as a playwright, memoirist, and oral storyteller.

Avni Vyas is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 6 alum, as well as a poet and professor living in Florida. She is the author of Little God (Burrow Press, 2021) and the chapbooks Far From Glorious Feeling (TOA, 2021) and When I Was a Barefoot Cloud (Anhinga, 2024).

Camilla Barber is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 6 alum, and a Community Coordinator and Dance Fitness Instructor supporting accessible wellness across New York City.

Carina L. Dacer is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 4 alum, and compliance professional who volunteers with healthcare center and charities. She serves as Treasurer on the board of The Good Listening Project.

Chanice Withers is an educator, poet, and proud graduate of the Certified Listener Poet program Cohort 7. A natural-born teacher, she shares her gift with the community through her monthly workshop, Poetry in the Park—a space for connection, creativity, and healing.

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 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.

Dawn M. Schocken is the Director for the Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation, and a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 1 alum.

Devon M. Bremer is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 2 alum and Director of Clinical Education Administration working with medical students and physicians.

D'ete Blackshire is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 3 alum, facilitator, and artist with a calling to create healing spaces that offer opportunities for transmuting struggle into seeds of hope.

Dylan Klempner is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum, award-winning journalist, and multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the role of creativity in health and healing.

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.

E. Tan is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum, researcher, educator, administrator, and multi-arts creative with a Ph.D. in Literature and an M.Ed. in Instructional Leadership.

Elizabeth Torres (b. 1987, Bogotá) is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum, a Colombian-American poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist residing in Denmark.

Ellen J. Reich is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum, a Spiritual Companion, and a Process Writing Facilitator. She loves deep listening and guiding others to honor their inner critics – by sending them on vacation – so that word-play can bounce around uninterrupted and with joy.

Erin “Fitz” FitzGerald is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, and a human who believes deeply in the healing power of generous listening. She is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and was an instructor and director of Healer's Art, which utilizes generous listening as a skill to be with others' suffering and humanize medicine.

Geva Thole is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum, a poet, and Behavior Health Specialist living in Wisconsin.

Gina Petersen is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum, and creates through mothering, nursing, mentoring, teaching, reflecting, reading, writing poetry, listening, and exploring nature with her husband, dog Rosie, newly born son, family, dear friends, and the souls she meets on the sojourns of her days.

Gray Davidson Carroll is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum, and a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places.

Gregory Gray is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 1 alum and an Air Force Veteran.

Heather Coats is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 4 alum, Nurse Practitioner, and Director of Research at Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.

Jennifer Chassman Browne is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum. She has been an educator for over 25 years, and has since founded New Ground Educational Consulting, a DEI consulting company with an emphasis on disability. She delivers keynote presentations and develops and facilitates workshops related to disability and inclusion.

Jo Linder, MD is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum, and recently retired after serving for more than a decade as Assistant Dean for Students/Director of Student Affairs in Maine Medical Center’s Department of Medical Education. She serves on the board of The Good Listening Project.

Joseph M. Jablonski is a typewriting street poet in addition to being a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 1 alum of The Good Listening Project. As a street poet, he entertains as the “Walking Mall Poet” on the downtown pedestrian mall of Winchester, Virginia and beyond.

Julia McDonald (She/They) is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, and a Maine-based physician, writer, and international humanitarian. McDonald’s writing has appeared in mainstream news media as advocacy for patients and commentary on the intersection of politics and medicine.

Julie Jenson is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 8 alum, a qualitative researcher, strategic advisor, writer and poet based in London. She works globally across pharmaceuticals, medical technologies, and public and private healthcare systems.

Kaitlin Dyer is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum, and a born-Appalachian, raised-Midwestern, transplanted-Californian queer poet. She’s the author of Alter Lives of Alter Egos (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) and her poetry has appeared in journals such as Witness, Crab Orchard Review, and PANK, among others.

Kathryn West (she/her) is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum, a social worker, and health communications professional who lives and works in the Chicagoland area.

Kelsey D. Mahaffey is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum and Nashville poet who keeps half her heart in New Orleans. Her work can be seen in: Deep South Magazine, Pinch, and Cumberland River Review, among others. No Fault of Water is her debut chapbook.