The Gold Humanism Summit, 2019

Listener Poets sat in the lobby by the registration table for four days during the Gold Humanism Summit at Planetree’s International Conference in Orlando, FL 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, Kay McKean, and Frankie Abralind

Orlando, Florida

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Mayo Clinic Transform Conference, 2019

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

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International Integrative Nursing Symposium, 2019

For the three days of the International Integrative Nursing Symposium in Galway, Ireland, Listener Poet Frankie Abralind sat in a hallway with his typewriter and a Free Custom Poetry sign. When curious folks came up to the table to take him up on his offer, he asked, “What should the poem be about?” Then, he listened.

These poems, inspired by those conversations, tell the stories of some of those amazing humans.

Listener Poet Frankie Abralind

Galway, Ireland

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American Nurses Association Annual Conference, 2019

At the 2019 American Nurses Association annual conference, Listener Poet Frankie Abralind sat and listened to RNs, NPs, CNAs, DNPs, LPNs, CNOs, and other nursing heroes and heroines who approached him and his typewriter at the Free Custom Poetry table he’d set up in the bookstore.

These poems, inspired by those conversations, tell the stories of some of those amazing humans.

Listener Poet Frankie Abralind

Orlando, Florida

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