February 19-21, 2026

The Good Listening Project attends several conferences this spring focused on graduate medical education, including The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)’s annual conference for medical educators.

March 4-6, 2026

The Good Listening Project attends several conferences this spring focused on graduate medical education, including The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)’s annual Residency Leadership Summit.

March 4-7, 2026

We’re excited to share that The Good Listening Project will have a table at the AWP Bookfair this March 4-7, 2026 in Baltimore. We’ll be connecting with the wider literary community, sharing our work, and highlighting books and voices from our Certified Listener Poet community.

April 8-11, 2026

We’re pleased to announce that our workshop proposal, “Holding Space for Caregivers through Poetry: A Workshop to Foster Compassionate Deep Listening” has been accepted for this year’s Health Humanities Consortium Conference, Health Justice: So it Goes?

April 15-19, 2026

We’re excited to announce that our workshop proposal, “Listen Like a Poet: The Transformative Power of Listening in Healthcare” has been accepted for this year’s National Association for Poetry Therapy 2026 Conference: Poetry as a Pathway to Peace.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Each anthology represents countless conversations between Listener Poets and the people they met in healthcare communities — moments of story, memory, and meaning transformed into poems.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Join us on Tuesday, October 21 at 7 pm EDT on Zoom. This 75-minute event will celebrate the five anthologies published by The Good Listening Project in 2025. Each anthology represents countless conversations between Listener Poets and the people they met in healthcare communities — moments of story, memory, and meaning transformed into poems.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

In collaboration with Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice (MHHJ), Listener Poet Ravenna Raven presented at the Poetic Health Justice event on April 9th, an event honoring the lived realities of those impacted by cancer.

Thursday, March 20, 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.

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Just Poetry is a live fundraiser and online poetry reading to honor and illuminate experiences in the healthcare community.

Sunday, February 26, 2023

This free community event was a live poetry reading and discussion with some of our Listener Poets and poemees on Zoom.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

This community event was a live poetry reading and discussion with some of our Listener Poets and poemees on Zoom for Giving Tuesday.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Just Poetry was a live online poetry reading to honor and illuminate experiences in the healthcare community.

Friday, April 8, 2022

In this session, Listener Poets provided insights into good listening by sharing poems—and stories of the conversations that inspired them—written for people across the academic medicine community.

January 24-26, 2022

Executive Director Frankie Abralind was at the 2022 Healthcare Burnout Symposium in San Francisco. We offered virtual Listener Poet sessions to conference attendees.

July 18, 2021

Listener Poets Yvette Perry and Frankie Abralind were featured guests at the Typewriter Poets' Roundtable.

March 26, 2020

We hosted this webinar about how good listening can help healthcare workers amid COVID-19 challenges.

September 25-26, 2019

Frankie Abralind, Co-Founder of The Good Listening Project,talks about why and how to be a better listener.