Poetry audiobooks

Love Poems for People with Children

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: John Kenney

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber-prize winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for people with children.

With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People such a hit, John Kenney is back... Read more

The Essential Muriel Rukeyser

By: Muriel Rukeyser

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey

Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to... Read more

Finna

By: Nate Marshall

Narrated by: Nate Marshall

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy

“Terrific . . . illuminates life in this country in a strikingly original way.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF... Read more

Old, Old Willow Tree

By: Vernon Campbell & Linward Campbell

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Old, Old Willow Tree It was a very sad day in the magical land of Floss Children had vanished from their homes, every single child was lost Their parents looked high and low, then all around Not a... Read more

Rhonda Gowler Greene Children's Collection

By: Rhonda Gowler Greene

Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Andrew Finn McGill & Sheila Hart

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook collection includes everyday favorites from celebrated children’s author Rhonda Gowler Greene:Jonah and the Great Big FishJonah’s disobedience landed him inside a big fish! And there he had time to think and pray. Children will feel the waves and hear the splash as Jonah sinks “down and down and down” into the belly of the fish.... Read more

Loss

By: David Harsent

Narrated by: David Harsent

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The city never sleeps. Silence would weaken it. When all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum of machinery dark undertone. It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come. A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by troubling dreams of a figure in a white landscape. This fragmentary vigil anchors a... Read more

Wing

By: Matthew Francis

Narrated by: Matthew Francis

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied... Read more

An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

Narrated by: Joy Harjo

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo... Read more

Rappy and His Favorite Things

By: Dan Gutman

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Rappy the Raptor’s class has to write poems about their favorite things for Poetry Week, and the best poet will win a cupcake! Will Rappy discover he’s a poet and he didn’t even know it? Beginning readers will love rapping along to this Level Two I Can Read tale as Rappy, his classmates, and even their teacher, Mrs. H, rap about everything from... Read more

The Bush Rodent

By: Charles Joseph Mloka

Narrated by: Addison Peacock

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bush Rodent is the author’s second poetry anthology in English focusing on various social, familial, economic, and cultural issues that are common in various societies. The author discusses them using simple language and different forms of poetry. This is a revised edition, which has been prepared to meet international standards and to reach... Read more

Ordinary Hazards

By: Nikki Grimes

Narrated by: Nikki Grimes

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed... Read more

Edge of a Fantasy and Other Poems

By: Gil Saenz

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this latest compilation of poetry from Saenz, fifty poems about love, hope, peace, nature and meditation are collected for the reader’s enjoyment. Each of these poems is printed in a side-byside nature, with the original English on the left and a Spanish version translated by both the author and his brother (who holds a doctorate in foreign... Read more

The Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

Narrated by: Hala Alyan

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." —LitHub



For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past—memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith—winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive... Read more

Love Poems for Anxious People

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: John Kenney

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people.

With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married... Read more

Lean Against This Late Hour

By: Garous Abdolmalekian

Narrated by: Sean Rohani

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation 

A vivid, "mesmerizing" (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian

The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent... Read more

The Girl and the Goddess

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with an innovative novel in verse, exploring Hindu mythology and legend.

Let her be a little less human, a little more divine
Give her heart armor so it doesn't break as easily as mine

Meet Paro. A girl with a strong will, a full heart, and much to learn. Born into a family... Read more

Tomorrow's Woman

By: Greta Bellamacina

Narrated by: Greta Bellamacina & Robert Montgomery

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling poetic meditation on motherhood, female identity, ennui, and love by Greta Bellamacina, London-based poet, actress, filmmaker, and model.

In Tomorrow's Woman, Greta Bellamacina's bold, exploratory voice combines the vivid imagery of French surrealism and British romantic poetry with a modern, first-person examination of love, gender... Read more

All for Bc

By: Barbara Hagen

Narrated by: Ryan Fox

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

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Everything Comes Next

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye & James Patrick Cronin

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved and acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye is the current Young People’s Poet Laureate, serving until August 2021. This celebratory book collects in one volume her most popular and accessible poems from the past forty years. Featuring new, never-before-published poems, an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch, as well as a... Read more

Pirate Stew

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet LONG JOHN McRON, SHIP'S COOK . . . and the most unusual babysitter you've ever seen. Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow, and—for one boy and his sister—he's about to transform a perfectly ordinary evening into a riotous adventure beneath a pirate moon. It's time to make some PIRATE STEW. Marvelously silly and gloriously... Read more

Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets

By: Jon M. Sweeney & Mark S. Burrows

Narrated by: Axel Bosley

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An elegant rendering of the great mystic’s thoughts on the mysteries of the authentic lifeThis is a little book about soul freedom. It is a book about discovering the secret to all the things we most desire: contentment, meaning, peace of mind, and true freedom. This skillfully edited translation of selections from the writings of Meister... Read more

Bukowski 100

By: Charles Bukowski

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Bukowski 100 has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. Read more

Concrete Kids

By: Amyra León

Narrated by: Amyra León

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A Goddard CBC's Social Justice Prize Nominee • A YALSA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults

"I will close my eyes and disappear into the pages of this book for many years to come."--Hanif Abdurraqib (New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in The Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest)

"Amyra's wondrous awe for life in all its terror and splendor... Read more

Healing W/O Patient Suffering (For Virginal Sole Distinction)

By: John Patrick Acevedo

Narrated by: Larry Herron

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An ascetic romantic, John Patrick Acevedo began his quest for God and love while he was a freshman at Clemson University. As he showed up rather nervously to his very first college course, he was quite stunned to see a beautiful professor, Amanda Dyer, who would prove to be instrumental to his writing. During his sophomore year at Boston... Read more