Poetry audiobooks

Poetic Expressions in Nursing

By: Susan J. Farese MSN RN

Narrated by: Susan J. Farese MSN RN

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This exciting collection of freeform poetry with over 40 poems by Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, is a sharing of both professional and personal thoughts and feelings. Susan is a strong advocate of the creative use of poetry to express the wonderment, frustration, dedication, and the love of nurses for their profession and their patients.
Included is a... Read more

Kinky Thoughts And Poems

By: Nsingo Sakala & Jasmine Kaur

Narrated by: Nikki Delgado

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Curators of Elite adult events and experiences, Nsingo and Jasmine, bring you an exquisite collection of quotes and poems geared towards easing curious minds into the world of soft Kink and sexual exploration. This book may be read in any order, and in any setting. It has been used by couples and singles to enhance sexual fantasies inside and... Read more

Alastor

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley & Bertram Do...

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Alastor


Or the Spirit of Solitude


And Other Poems


By Percy Bysshe Shelley


Narrated by Denis Daly


This meditation on artistic creativity was written during the latter months of 1815, during a sojourn on the border of Windsor Forest. Critics have concurred in the opinion that the anonymous hero of the poem is Shelley himself, who feared that he too... Read more

I Smile When It Hurts & Other Poems

By: Denise Moyo

Narrated by: Denise Moyo

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of 61 poems that were selected from poetry books written by Denise Moyo. The poems read are from books titled This Love is Like the Gitmo: Poems from My Spirit, No Longer Prodigal: A Collection Of Poetry, Pregnant with Words; A Collection of Poetry and Out of the Water: A Collection of Poetry. The audiobook is divided into... Read more

Welcome to Midland

By: Logen Cure

Narrated by: Logen Cure

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Midland is a queer coming-of-age narrative in verse set against the backdrop of conservative small-town Texas. These linked poems explore the cultural and natural history of West Texas (from the horned lizard to dirt storms to Laura Bush’s car accident), connecting events and movements from across eras to create a tenuous yet strong... Read more

Ordinary Beast

By: Nicole Sealey

Narrated by: Nicole Sealey

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017
A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Sealey’s work is restless in its empathic,... Read more

Silver Bells

By: Liesel Kippen

Narrated by: Hannibal Hills

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

I have a huge passion for writing and enjoy letting my ideas run wild on a page. My endeavour in life is to encourage, uplift and motivate. I strive to do this in my writing and in all I do and say. I am in awe of nature and her vast treasures. I receive much pleasure and inspiration from observing nature in her many beautiful forms. I hope that... Read more

Fun Poems for Your Child

By: Jenny Carey & Frances Espanol

Narrated by: Hannibal Hills

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book for children, with fun poems, the poems have been written with children in mind, and can stimulate their imagination, curiosity and development. The inspiration behind these poems came from my own experiences when I was a child, and what I would have enjoyed. Hopefully these poems will be read by children world wide and they... Read more

Black Oak

By: Harold Green III

Narrated by: Harold Green III

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires—groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and John Legend—and celebrates their achievements which are... Read more

Mud Ajar

By: Hiram Larew

Narrated by: T. A. Niles

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In its very speak of twigs, with all of its flies over pies, and for its every rake on a shoulder…here’s a rucksack of poem adventures!
Indeed, in its wonder of poems — many that hike across the page — Mud Ajar is wise beyond its years. Even more, the book is an unaccustomed lark, a luster. Yes surely, a bluebird of handsome.
What Hiram Larew... Read more

If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse

By: Ellen Palestrant

Narrated by: Ellen Palestrant

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse, a collection of poems to be enjoyed by all ages, you will enter New Worlds of Possibility that are dreamlike, imaginative, humorous, lyrical, and thought-provoking. Poems from and inspired by The World of Glimpse, written and illustrated by Ellen Palestrant. A theatrical audio treat for... Read more

As I Ascend

By: Sina Hilbert

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

As I Ascend is an unforgettable collection of poems about love, race, and all things in between from Sina Hilbert in her book debut.In As I Ascend, Sina not only gives readers an intimate, unfiltered look into her own experiences with romantic love and heartbreak; she also explores self-love and love for her culture – Black culture. She examines... Read more

Vinegar Hill

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens

Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space... Read more

Llama Llama Back to School

By: Anna Dewdney & Reed Duncan

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A Netflix Original series

From bestselling author and storyteller Anna Dewdney comes a back-to-school story featuring the beloved Llama Llama!

Summer days are getting shorter and it's almost time for the first day of school for Llama! But Llama Llama isn’t ready for summertime to end. It's been full of backyard camping, family picnics, and ice... Read more

Manifest

By: Debbie Viale

Narrated by: Teagan McKenzie

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

These are my collection of poems that I wrote over the years. Some wonderful memories and experiences that I shared with people close to my heart. Read more

Poems - 1905-1911

By: George Woodberry, Margaret Lavington & Rupert B...

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems - 1905-1911


By Rupert Brooke


Narrated by Denis Daly


Not all the young poets whose lives were cut short during the First World War were actual casualties of the conflict. James Elroy Flecker and Rupert Brooke both died in 1915, each leaving a body of finished work which places him in the ranks of the major poets of the Twentieth Century.


Brooke... Read more

Streams in the Desert Morning and Evening

By: L. B. E. Cowman

Narrated by: Amanda Sanfilippo & John Behrens

Length: 30 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Streams in the Desert will encourage listeners through short devotions that speak to the soul with the ageless truth of the Word of God.Now combined with author L.B. Cowman’s follow-up of Springs in the Valley is an everyday morning and evening devotional.In Streams in the Desert Morning and Evening, you will find: More than 900 short daily... Read more

Mountain Laurels

By: Genevieve C. Sparks

Narrated by: Kathy Bell Denton

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Mountain Laurels is the first published collection of poems written by Genevieve C. Sparks over many years in what she calls "the simple form of mountain colloquial." While some individual poems draw their meaning from a personal experience of the poet, "the basic thought of the book in its entirety is," she says, "the great inspiration derived... Read more

Don't Let Me Be Lonely

By: Claudia Rankine

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter.



The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric and the essay in this politically and... Read more

A Sand Book

By: Ariana Reines

Narrated by: Ariana Reines

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane... Read more

The True Account of Myself as a Bird

By: Robert Wrigley

Narrated by: Robert Wrigley

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the earth are telling us

Over the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses.  In his new collection, Wrigley... Read more

The Immortal Soul Salvage Yard

By: Beth May

Narrated by: Beth May

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Diary entries, medical records, book reports, phone calls, dates (the romantic kind), dreams, index cards, passive aggressive post-it notes, stories, emails to professors, dates (the month/day kind), worries, and resumes that never led to job interviews... Read more

I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

By: Iain S. Thomas

Narrated by: Iain S. Thomas

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Started as an online multimedia project in 2007, I Wrote This For You became an acclaimed poetry collection of hauntingly beautiful words and emotion that's unique to each person who reads it. This never-before released audio edition is narrated by the author.

I Wrote This For You: Please Listen focuses on a different facet of life, love, loss,... Read more

Black Roses

By: Harold Green III

Narrated by: Harold Green III

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, and Simone Biles—with this compilation of celebratory... Read more