Poetry audiobooks

While We Wait

By: Megan Campbell

Narrated by: Kate Marcin

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

While We Wait is a collection of poems extracted from the author’s blog of the same name and is largely inspired by her work, her faith, and the nature in and around Sydney. Read more

A Green Light

By: Matthew Rohrer

Narrated by: Matthew Rohrer

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesMatthew Rohrer’s simple, hilarious, generous, and strangely disquieting poems conjure versions of the most familiar aspects of our lives—friendship, marriage, childhood, work—into which intrude incongruous, peculiar, fantastical, yet somehow totally recognizable elements. Over and over these poems leave us convinced... Read more

The Mended Heart

By: Rhonda Milner

Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Mended Heart, author and poet Rhonda Dawes Milner brings readers an inspirational book of poetry and prose, offering them comfort and hope when they are going through difficult times. Drawing from her own experiences of joy and happiness, pain and sorrow, she shares words that encourage and lift the spirits of those who need to be... Read more

Mezzanine

By: Zoe Hitzig

Narrated by: Zoe Hitzig

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An inventive and assured debut from an exciting new voice in poetry.In her striking collection of poems, Zoë Hitzig investigates how we seek certitude, power, and domination over the natural world and one another. Hitzig brings a scientific rigor to her poetry, as well as a raucous energy and willingness to allow her work to exist in states of... Read more

Conundrums of Indignant Bliss

By: D.J. Haliday

Narrated by: D.J. Haliday

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An aural, cinematic road trip through a landscape of a consciousness, both reflective and outlandish, chronicling a seeker of experience, adventures, and justice; a thrill-seeking ride through memory, awareness, reminiscent of an odyssey, often heroic, on a journey to make sense of and experience in a profound way this world we live in. Read more

The Poetry of K.Y. Robinson: The Chaos of Longing and Submerge

By: K.Y. Robinson

Narrated by: K.Y. Robinson

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Poetry of K.Y. Robinson: The Chaos of Longing and Submerge is an audio collection of K.Y. Robinson’s work, including unabridged narration of her first two books, interwoven with author commentary and musical accompaniment. This bundled audiobook allows readers to access all of Robinson’s poetry in one place, and to gain insight into her... Read more

nectar

By: Upile Chisala

Narrated by: Upile Chisala

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From beloved Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes the revised and expanded edition of her second collection of poetry.
In nectar, Chisala guides readers through a beautiful process of growth and renewal. These poems celebrate our always complex, sometimes troubled roots while encouraging us to grow through and beyond them toward a passionate... Read more

Najwa Zebian: The Collected Poems

By: Najwa Zebian

Narrated by: Najwa Zebian

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Najwa Zebian: The Collected Poems is an audio collection of Zebian's bestselling poetry, including the full text of Mind Platter, The Nectar of Pain, and Sparks of Phoenix. This bundled audiobook allows readers to access all of Zebian’s moving work in one place, in the author’s own voice. Read more

Muerto de sueños

By: Holden Centeno

Narrated by: Francesco Carril

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Muerto de sueños es el grito de una generación: sus ilusiones, su visión de la vida, el amor, la literatura y la música convertidos en poesía. «Catarsis es entender de alguien algo que nadie entendería.» Este audiolibro habla de encontrar la esperanza y el amor en medio del caos, de los sueños que nos atenazan por las ganas o la imposibilidad de... Read more

Stages of Awareness

By: Shelia Bryant

Narrated by: Todd Ethridge

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Stages of Awareness: Reflections of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Sheila D. Bryant, is a rich medley of lyrical poetry that captures the spirit and soul of life's many lessons. The passages take you on an emotional journey of the mind like few books have dared to explore. The book's array of depth and emotions keep you wanting more. There is... Read more

Teoría de los cuerpos

By: Zahara

Narrated by: Zahara

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Teoría de los cuerpos es un análisis poético de las maneras de relacionarnos que tenemos los seres humanos: cuerpos que se mueven, se repelen y se imantan con sus iguales por razones a veces difíciles de comprender. «Intenté entender qué nos sucedía desde todos los ángulos posibles. Observé el ansia, la espera, el deseo, la tristeza, el vacío.... Read more

1919

By: Eve L. Ewing

Narrated by: Eve L. Ewing

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries—through poems recounting the... Read more

Homie

By: Danez Smith

Narrated by: Danez Smith

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Danez Smith is our president



Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a... Read more

Don't Call Us Dead

By: Danez Smith

Narrated by: Danez Smith

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry



Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection



Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where... Read more

Tarantula

By: Bob Dylan

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.

Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in... Read more

The Silver Pen

By: Jan Voth Dubbs

Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

This author uses words as a sculptor uses clay. She doesn’t change the shape of the word; it’s the surrounding words that contain the poetic surprise. She explains that she personally likes to be surprised by a word that doesn’t usually follow another. It is a way to startle the reader into looking deeper into the thought. There are times when... Read more

Swimming Lessons

By: Lili Reinhart

Narrated by: Lili Reinhart

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity.

I seem to be your new favorite novel.
One that keeps you up at night,
turning my pages.
Fingers lingering on me so you don’t lose your place.

Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric... Read more

We Inherit What the Fires Left

By: William Evans

Narrated by: William Evans

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs... Read more

And the Eyes Are Brilliant Is Your Army!

By: Iliyan Yurukov

Narrated by: Steven Mitchell

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The book illustrates the efforts of the progressive people of the Planet in the struggle for world peace!. The patterns of formation of the stages of civilizations and their efforts for survival are revealed. Contacts and forms of migrations of various peoples in connection with planetary cataclysms are traced. Demonstrate the conviction and... Read more

dayliGht

By: Roya Marsh

Narrated by: Roya Marsh

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race.

Growing up, Roya Marsh was considered “tomboy passing." With an affinity for baggy clothes, cornrows, and bandanas, she came of age in an... Read more

A Certain Clarity

By: Lawrence Joseph

Narrated by: Lawrence Joseph

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer

Beginning with his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of Lawrence Joseph’s poetry “of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness” (John... Read more

A Journey To The End Of The Millennium

By: A.B. Yehoshua

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with... Read more

Love Poems for Married People

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: John Kenney

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people.

Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People takes the poetic form, turns it upside down and leaves it in the... Read more

Blon (Hemisferios | Eternamente)

By: Pablo Pérez Rueda

Narrated by: Blon

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Blon, el «rapero poeta» más querido y admirado del circuito freestyle, recita todos los poemas de sus dos libros editados hasta la fecha: Eternamente y Hemisferios. En Hemisferios, su segundo poemario, encontrarás la belleza que esconde el horror y la parte más cruel de la felicidad. Poemas sobre las dos caras, las múltiples visiones que el ser... Read more