Poetry audiobooks

El rayo que no cesa

By: Miguel Hernández

Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"El rayo que no cesa" es un poemario publicado por Miguel Hernández en 1936, meses antes del estallido de la Guerra Civil Española. La temática de la mayoría de sus poemas es amorosa y trágica, con un tono apasionado, pues el amor hiere al poeta que, sin embargo, se aferra a ese sentimiento buscando un sentido al mundo y a su propia existencia.... Read more

Romancero gitano

By: Federico García Lorca

Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Romancero gitano, emocionante y hermoso libro de poemas publicado por Federico García Lorca en 1928, recoge la mirada del poeta a través de un retrato mítico a la vez que costumbrista del pueblo gitano. Todas las obsesiones y todos los iconos del autor encuentran su lugar en esta obra, el amor, la tradición, la muerte, la luna, el mar, y todo... Read more

The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: David Atwood

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

David Atwood is a professional voice actor who has been heard for decades on TV, radio, games, theater, and movies. He performed Poe's classic The Raven in theater and now presents it for you to enjoy in audio form. Read more

Siempre

By: Defreds

Narrated by: Defreds

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

«Porque un Ojalá nunca estará completo sin un Siempre». Siguiendo el camino abierto por Ojalá, esta flamante propuesta de Defreds sorprende como contrapartida y continuación de Siempre, su anterior título, un nuevo volumen en el que destacarán también las preciosas creaciones de Lady Desidia que ilustran los textos. En este caso, el libro está... Read more

Muscadine

By: A. H. Jerriod Avant

Narrated by: A. H. Jerriod Avant

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape’s “thick skin    [that] teeth / pierce    breaks to pour // sweetly across the tongue.” Throughout these pages, a deeply Southern sensibility balances an... Read more

Survivor's Notebook

By: Dan O'Brien

Narrated by: Dan O'Brien

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful companion to 2021’s Our Cancers catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has recently survived her own cancer, as he returns to his daily life while raising a young daughter. This prose-poem sequence is truly a survivor’s notebook, using the tools of memoir to evoke the ways in which disaster can constellate our past,... Read more

Wisdom of the Punk Buddha

By: Sam Marsh

Narrated by: Sam Marsh

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“I am a punk and a Buddhist,
And I'm not conflicted at all.“

Wisdom of the Punk Buddha is the perfect amalgamation of thoughtful poetry and the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime of Buddhist philosophy and knowledge and devotion to the punk scene. Built around a series of easy to digest life lessons. It’s a book that poses a simple question - “Do... Read more

Ungehemmte Lust

By: Cortney Manocchia

Narrated by: Mona Kola

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

★★Umgehemmte Lust nach anregender Erotik★★Wenn zwei Körper miteinander verschmelzen und die pure Magie der Erotik genießen. Es beginnt mit leichten und sanften Küssen, bis sie härter und leidenschaftlicher werden. Die aufsteigende Wärme, die zu einer Hitze wird. Das Knistern zwischen den beiden Körpern und das Verlangen nach umgehemmter... Read more

Tarta Americana

By: J. Michael Martinez

Narrated by: J. Michael Martinez

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire

Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories.... Read more

Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door

By: Cary Fagan

Narrated by: Veronica Hortiguela

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The arrival of a mysterious new neighbor inspires a kid to write her own poetry in this humorous and unforgettable new middle-grade novel by award-winning author Cary Fagan.

Andie Gladman is your typical kid — she lives in a small town, doesn't have many friends and quietly puts up with taunts from the school bully, Myrtle Klinghoffer. But one... Read more

Escape Velocity

By: Cate McNider

Narrated by: Cate McNider

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Cate McNider's poetry is a remarkable journey through the depths of the human experience. In Escape Velocity, she invites us to explore the uncharted territories of our inner selves and discover what lies beneath the surface. With each poem, she fearlessly confronts her own conditioning and strips away the layers of habit and illusion that... Read more

The Magic Border

By: Arlo Parks

Narrated by: Arlo Parks

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning debut book of poetry and a world-building companion to her sophomore album My Soft Machine.“Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I’m not sure what gave me the courage to open up... Read more

The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Divine Comedy" is an epic poem by Dante Alighieri, written in the early 14th century. Composed of three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—the poem is an allegorical account of the soul's journey towards God. Dante begins in the dark forest of human sin and error, travels up the mountain of Purgatory where souls are cleansed, and... Read more

The Asking

By: Jane Hirshfield

Narrated by: Jane Hirshfield

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an... Read more

Sing a Black Girl's Song

By: Ntozake Shange

Narrated by: Alfre Woodard, D. Woods, Regina Taylor, Lynn Wh...

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023

Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, curated by National Book Award winner Imani Perry with... Read more

Love Her Blind and Other Poems

By: David Somerfleck

Narrated by: Marcus Mulenga

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of modern, contemporary adult poetry. Topics range from abuse, love, childhood memories, admiration, the fantastic, spirituality, observation, to eventual personal redemption. Read more

Campos de Castilla

By: Antonio Machado

Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Campos de Castilla, publicado en 1912, es, probablemente, el libro más influyente de la poesía en español del siglo XX. Su impacto en sucesivas generaciones de poetas, comenzando por la Generación del 98, a la que Machado pertenece, o por la Generación del 27, aún se siente y es reconocible en las voces a ambos lados del Atlántico, en España e... Read more

Poppy the Pea

By: Dr.Fuzz

Narrated by: Julia Savill

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Poppy the Pea! Poppy lives with her fellow peas "in the dark and freezy degrees." She dreams of being bold and free to explore the outside world, but one irrational and overwhelming fear stands in her way. Can this sweet little pea ever be bold and break free? Join Poppy as she engages with fear, setbacks, and wise characters on her first... Read more

Testimonial Praises

By: Irma Jean Driver

Narrated by: Dahlia Black

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in part to bring hope to people who are lost, when the words are carefully taken, Testimonial Praises: Up for Grabs awakens readers, touching the hearts of believers and bringing awareness to the mind of sinners.

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Everyday Shakespeare

By: Ben Crystal & David Crystal

Narrated by: Ben Crystal, David Crystal & Hillary Crystal

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An absolutely joyous, gasp-out-loud achievement. - Stephen Fry

A cathedral of consciousness - Shakespeare's uncanny insight into human nature finds us, unearthed here. - LionHeart, artist, poet, and BBC Radio London presenter

Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and... Read more

The Inspiring World of Ella Rose La Fleur

By: Lori Schneider, MD

Narrated by: Hannah Dere

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore the intrigue and wonder of everyday life with this charming story in verse about a precocious dark-eyed, dark-haired little girl.   Six-year-old Ella Rose La Fleur loves singing, dancing, and riding her award-winning pony, Chestnut. She also adores her pets, Jessie and Molly, and her best friends, Mike and Kate, with whom she enjoys many... Read more

Le Poème de l'Esprit d'Amour

By: Guillaume Coliac

Narrated by: Guillaume Coliac

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Ô l'Amour est l'essence éternelle de l'âme ! Il est le carburant qui fait briller la flamme... DIEU, personne ne l'a jamais vu, ou encore nul ne peut voir Dieu et vivre : c'est écrit dans la Bible. Pourtant, la parole de Dieu a été adressée aux êtres humains dans ce livre sacré qui contient les grandes révélations sur l'origine et le destin de... Read more

Maps You Can't Make

By: Mariella Saavedra Carquin

Narrated by: Mariella Saavedra Carquin

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Trauma takes up real space within us, and it can be so difficult to hold. How do we access that place of longing and loss, of fragmented memory and grief? How do we carry it as we walk in the world? There’s no map for this, no clear path through the internal landscape it reshapes, no easy way to make meaning of our lives in that disoriented... Read more

Buffalo Girl

By: Jessica Q. Stark

Narrated by: Jessica Q. Stark

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In these poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother’s fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. These... Read more