Digitally Curious ... AI and Poetry <Insert robot sounds here> I made a cool friend while training to be a Certified Listener Poet in 2025 (Shout out, Cohort 10!). She's a poet and studies digital humanities -- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), machine learning, and the intersection of technology and creativity. We started a splinter writing group that meets weekly. to talk and write poetry for 60 minutes. It's like a nice glass of wine at the end of the

"Find Folks Who Will ... Hear You Cry." This was an amazing podcast about professionalizing compassion, the human side of medicine, and what good friends will do for you when you're freaking out. Here's my blog about it for The Good Listening Project . BTW: TGLP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to humanizing healthcare through the healing power of poetry and compassionate presence. TGLP and its Certified Listener Poets (CLPs) -- a legion 100 strong now -- help humans by usi

A poem came from this photo of a holy man standing off to the side by himself. He looked out of place yet beyond the world at the same time. Here's the photo. And here's the poem .

Happy Cinco De Mayo peeps! Just found out NHPR published online a piece I submitted call "Enough." It was part of their awesome program It's Poetry Month at NHPR: Share your poems with us. The theme of the week was "Mistake & Solutions." Am also surprised that State Poet Laureate Alexandria Peary read it with NHPR "All Things Considered" host Peter Biello on air. What a gift. You can find it here . Once you get to the page, look for the recording box. Scroll down that page