Chidube Nkiruka’s fascination with rhythm and poetry is connected to its capacity to birth resilience, resistance, and recovery in neglected, abuse, and addiction sufferers.

D'ete Blackshire {TGLP}

October 2, 2024

Current

Joseph Jablonski

D'ete Blackshire {TGLP}

October 2, 2024

Current

Joseph Jablonski is a typewriter street poet, and Listener Poet. Stay connected and tuned in to his whereabouts, poetry, and musings at his website.

Joseph's Poems

Prayer for Peace

For many years, this patient has avoided confrontation in pursuit of peace.

Beck Klassen

Ravenna Raven

January 31, 2024

Current

Beck Klassen is a writer and current student of Arts & Sciences at McMaster University (Class of ‘23). Beck became The Good Listening Project's first Listener Poet in 2018 when they helped pilot the program at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC.

Ravenna Raven

January 30, 2024

Current

D'ete Blackshire

Ravenna Raven

January 30, 2024

Current

D'ete Blackshire is a facilitator and artist with a calling to create healing spaces that offer opportunities for transmuting struggle into seeds of hope.

Ravenna Raven

January 29, 2024

Current

Elizabeth Pringle

Ravenna Raven

January 29, 2024

Current

Elizabeth Pringle explores language and the human experience through theatre and film, arts and media education, leadership coaching, and professional development.

Ravenna Raven

January 28, 2024

Former

Frankie Abralind

Ravenna Raven

January 28, 2024

Former

Frankie Abralind began experimenting with this work when he was lead designer at Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital's Innovation Hub. For years on the weekends, he'd been listening to and writing poems for strangers on the streets of Washington, D.C.

Ravenna Raven

January 27, 2024

Current

Jenny Hegland

Ravenna Raven

January 27, 2024

Current

Jenny Hegland is a creative facilitator, coach, and social entrepreneur whose life’s work centers around community engagement, participatory leadership, and social justice.

Ravenna Raven

January 26, 2024

Former

Katherine Gekker

Ravenna Raven

January 26, 2024

Former

Katherine Gekker is the author of In Search of Warm Breathing Things (Glass Lyre Press, 2019); her poems have also appeared in Little Patuxent Review, Delmarva Review, Broadkill Review, Apple Valley Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Ravenna Raven

January 25, 2024

Former

Kay McKean

Ravenna Raven

January 25, 2024

Former

Kay McKean co-founded The Good Listening Project after working with leadership teams across industries to build trust and psychological safety in workplace cultures.

Ravenna Raven

January 24, 2024

Current

Mindy Shah

Ravenna Raven

January 24, 2024

Current

Mindy Shah grew up near the shores of Lake Erie, in Ohio, and spent much of her childhood tramping around the woods and writing stories she seldom finished.

Ravenna Raven

January 23, 2024

Current

Ravenna Raven

January 23, 2024

Current

Ravenna Raven works as a Listener Poet at hospitals, healing centers, and national healthcare conferences. She teaches creative writing, reading development, and restorative yoga to students of all ages.

Ravenna Raven

January 21, 2024

Current

Yvette Perry

Ravenna Raven

January 21, 2024

Current

Yvette Perry is a lover of music and books, an amateur photographer, a collector of antique typewriters, and one fourth of a Marvel Cinematic Universe household that includes her husband and twin daughters.

Ravenna Raven

January 20, 2024

Current

Zina Mercil

Ravenna Raven

January 20, 2024

Current

Zina Mercil is a lover of people, connection, compassion, words, artistic expression, and life.

Geva Thole

Chidube Nkiruka

Joseph Jablonski

Beck Klassen

D'ete Blackshire

Elizabeth Pringle

Frankie Abralind

Jenny Hegland

Katherine Gekker

Kay McKean

Mindy Shah

Ravenna Raven

Yvette Perry

Zina Mercil

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