Two Listener Poets sat in the lobby by the registration table at the Mayo Clinic’s Transform conference in Rochester, MN, with a Free Custom Poetry sign and their typewriters. When a curious person stopped to take one of them up the offer, the Listener Poet asked, “What should the poem be about?” Then, they listened.
Inspired by those conversations, the poems in this book tell the stories of some of the humans attending that event.
Listener Poets Ravenna Raven and Frankie Abralind
Rochester, Minnesota
She was very proud of her daughter and has hopes for “a bright future that’s as pain free as possible”
“I’ve always loved hearts,” she said. She was a cardiac nurse who had been drawn to a job in the catheterization laboratory. “It’s so rare to have an opportunity to immediately do something good for somebody, but it happens often in the cath lab,” she told me.
