Elle Klassen

Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine, 2024

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This book contains poems and stories, written by Listener Poets from The Good Listening Project, for members of the KNN Learner Network. The Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine (KNN) is a national movement focused on integrating four foundational elements within the profession of medicine: character, caring, practical wisdom and flourishing. They advance this work by connecting and convening stakeholders across the health ecosystem, catalyzing transformative initiatives, and influencing policy and systems change.

Ranging from medical students to residents and fellows, the KNN Learner Network is composed of creators, innovators and change agents working to advance flourishing at the local level by integrating concepts from the KNN Framework for Flourishing. To learn more, please visit knncaringcharactermedicine.org.

 
 

Association of American Medical Colleges, 2021

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) leads and serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere. In partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Listener Poets from The Good Listening Project spoke with 252 of their constituents from all areas of medical education. This book contains the resulting poems and stories, written by our Listener Poets.

Topics on the minds of participants ranged widely in a time marked by a global pandemic, widespread demonstrations around racial equity, and the persistent dedication of healthcare workers. Listener Poets began each conversation by asking, “What should the poem be about?” Then, they listened.

 

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Volume 1

August - November 2020

Volume 2

December 2020 -

March 2021

Volume 3

March - May 2021



Erie Shores Healthcare, 2019

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For four weeks, Listener Poet Elle Klassen sat in the cafeteria of a hospital in Leamington, Ontario with a sign advertising Free Custom Poetry and her typewriter. When curious folks took her up on the offer, she asked, “What should the poem be about?” Then, she listened.

These poems, inspired by those conversations, tell the stories of some of the humans in that hospital.

Listener Poet Elle Klassen

Leamington, Ontario

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Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital, 2018

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Over the course of a month and a half, poet Elle Klassen had one-on-one conversations with nurses, patients, doctors, family members, clinical technicians, administrators – really anyone who approached her and her typewriter at the Free Custom Poetry table she’d set up in their hospital.

The poems inspired by these conversations tell the stories of some of those humans.

Listener Poet Elle Klassen

Washington, D.C.

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