Poetry audiobooks

Brown Girl, Brown Girl

By: Leslé Honoré

Narrated by: Leslé Honoré

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful and hopeful book—inspired by the historic election of Vice President Kamala Harris—celebrates brown and Black girls. 

Brown girl, brown girl, what did you see? 
A world that sees my skin before it sees me. 

Based on a viral poem by Blaxican poet and activist Leslé Honoré, and illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Cozbi A. Cabrera, this... Read more

You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Read more

A Rare Recording of Anne Sexton Reading Her Poem "Wanting To Die" - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Anne Sexton

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Anne Sexton, born Anne Gray Harvey, (November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry details her long battle with bipolar disorder, suicidal tendencies, and intimate details from her private life,... Read more

A Rare Recording of Allen Ginsburg Reading His Poem "America" - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Allen Ginsburg

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997), born in Newark NJ, was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual... Read more

A Rare Recording of TS Eliot Reading His Poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: TS Eliot

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965) was an American-British poet, essayist and playwright. He is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also... Read more

Lacunae

By: Scott Cairns

Narrated by: Scott Cairns

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

New poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainable

Often, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our “ glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space.” This is the poet' s continuing fascination... Read more

Princesas para armar

By: Anaclara Muro

Narrated by: Anaclara Muro

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Princesas para armar" es un poemario que cuenta la historia de tres princesas que se llaman Clara y, a través de versos, va entrelazando una historia familiar de rencores y afectos complicados. Los temas que se abordan están relacionados con el concepto de la feminidad y sus complejidad en distintas generaciones mientras que se atraviesan... Read more

An Arbitrary Light Bulb

By: Ian Duhig

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Poetry of Life, Love and Loss

By: Carol Lynn Caswell

Narrated by: Susan Fouche

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique collection of diverse poems written over a lifetime by the author. Read more

Ich tat die Augen auf und sah das Helle. Gedichte und Prosa - Abridged

By: Mascha Kaléko

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach, Katja Danowski, Julia Nacht...

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mascha Kaléko ist eine leuchtende Ausnahmeerscheinung in der deutschen Literatur. Niemand verkörpert das Berlin der Weimarer Republik zwischen Schreibmaschinengrau, hellen Kinoreklamen und nicht enden wollenden Nächten im Romanischen Café so sehr wie die melancholische Großstadtdichterin mit ihrem sprühenden Witz. Auch nach ihrer Flucht vor den... Read more

The Bali Paradigm

By: Michael M Clements

Narrated by: Michael M Clements

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever dreamed of starting a new life in a tropical paradise far from home? The Bali Paradigm chronicles such a leap through the prose, poetry and illustrations of author Michael M Clements, who sold his business, his house and all his possessions and moved with his partner and son to start a new life in Bali, and in the process, created... Read more

Made of Rivers [Revised & Expanded]

By: Emory Hall

Narrated by: Emory Hall

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Now revised and expanded with new poems, this raw and poignant collection takes readers on a journey through the winding currents of self-discovery, transformation, and healing, culminating in a glistening sea of love and redemption.

the love that is meant for you
will always find you -
the river
always finds
t h e s e a.
― i n e v i t a b l e

Emory... Read more

O Corvo

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Jeferson Barbosa

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Este livro apresenta o poema O Corvo de Edgar Allan Poe na tradução de Fernando Pessoa, um dos maiores poetas da língua portuguesa, juntamente com sua versão original, em inglês, de 1845. O livro também apresenta ao final a versão de Machado de Assis, a primeira tradução do texto em língua portuguesa publicada em 1883. Todavia, optou-se por... Read more

Os Móveis Continuam Prisioneiros

By: Jeferson Barbosa

Narrated by: Jeferson Barbosa

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Em "Os Móveis Continuam Prisioneiros", Jeferson Barbosa nos convida a adentrar uma casa singular, onde cada cômodo abriga poemas-móveis imbuídos de histórias. Através de uma linguagem poética e rica em imagens, o autor explora as profundezas da alma humana, revelando as marcas deixadas pelo tempo, as dores da perda e a fragilidade das relações.... Read more

THE LIER

By: Ozgur Gunes

Narrated by: Murat GUNES

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Catch me if you canAndTake my queen with your king.Try me.Seek for missing peace or take a piece of meTo complete the puzzle of yourself.You will always have confidence and i heve to accept.Ask me the questions you have done yourself… Read more

Dont Cry My Dear

By: Ozgur Gunes

Narrated by: Murat GUNES

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

LovelyLord knows try to get you out of my heart?Out of my life and my mind?Voices are echoing somewhere in the back of my mind?Even when you are an angel and ı am the dark?Love is third?And you are greatest step to survive?Yesterday was the time when I realized I was all alone in the dark?With your hands holding a knife?You were the dark witing... Read more

Lost Feelings

By: Ozgur Gunes

Narrated by: Murat GUNES

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Without YouWithout youMy love has dulled.Washed away from all colors.Blind from all fun.Its gonna be quite some time until I see you again.To be with you any sooner.With the devil eyed virgin.I miss your face, I miss your eyes.I miss the way you love most of all.The way you make me smile.Please come back.Its been too long a while.Even if its... Read more

Poems Of Peace

By: James Allen

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Wordsworth held that every true poet was a teacher; and he said, “I wish either to be considered as a teacher, or as nothing.” The poems in this volume are designed to teach; and as instruction is best administered by methods which please while they elevate, the immediate object of these poems is to comfort, to bless, and to make happy; and,... Read more

Oh! Spiritual Man!

By: David Ashley White How-Shepherd AKA Elder Poppy...

Narrated by: David Ashley White How-Shepherd AKA Elder Poppy...

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

David Ashley White How-Shepherd AKA as Elder Poppy Uncle Seeds Man Di Hi Shep was born in Crookwell, 26 miles (marathon distance) from the city of Goulburn, NSW Australia. – He used to run it as a baby... But that's another story.David was born in a humpy (the ghettos) in Goulburn and was transferred to Crookwell base hospital, put in an... Read more

Finding Out

By: John Cowhig

Narrated by: John Cowhig

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

I AMLike youLiving through dreamsMaking deals with desireBullied by fearsTethered to memory’s ghosts
Finding Out is a warm invitation to join me on a walk through the tangled pathways we all trek. Themes range from the pain of adolescent self-consciousness, to the security of friends, to the fire of romance, to our yearning to grasp the cosmos.... Read more

Infierno (Comedia)

By: Dante Alighieri & José María Micó Juan (Transla...

Narrated by: José María de Tavira

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay obras maestras, como el Quijote, que los autores empiezan sin plan preciso ni determinado: van haciendo de la necesidad virtud, rizando el rizo de la invención. Pero la Comedia pertenece a otra categoría: es el resultado de la deliberación y la perseverancia de Dante. Exiliado de Florencia y condenado a la hoguera, fue incluso contumaz, pues... Read more

Paraíso (Comedia)

By: Dante Alighieri & José María Micó Juan (Transla...

Narrated by: José María de Tavira

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay obras maestras, como el Quijote, que los autores empiezan sin plan preciso ni determinado: van haciendo de la necesidad virtud, rizando el rizo de la invención. Pero la Comedia pertenece a otra categoría: es el resultado de la deliberación y la perseverancia de Dante. Exiliado de Florencia y condenado a la hoguera, fue incluso contumaz, pues... Read more

Purgatorio (Comedia)

By: Dante Alighieri & José María Micó Juan (Transla...

Narrated by: José María de Tavira

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay obras maestras, como el Quijote, que los autores empiezan sin plan preciso ni determinado: van haciendo de la necesidad virtud, rizando el rizo de la invención. Pero la Comedia pertenece a otra categoría: es el resultado de la deliberación y la perseverancia de Dante. Exiliado de Florencia y condenado a la hoguera, fue incluso contumaz, pues... Read more

shadow.self.

By: Joe Arden

Narrated by: Joe Arden

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Herein lies a raw exploration of duality, darkness, and desire. A collection of sonnets, haikus, and free verse that brings to the surface our fractured pieces and celebrates how the light and the dark blend to make us whole. An invitation to embrace the shadow and give it its rightful place as a part of the self. Internationally celebrated... Read more