Poetry audiobooks

Sweet Dreams

By: Rick Telander

Narrated by: Rick Telander

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sweet Dreams'' consists of 42 original poems with bedtime, sleep, and dreaming as their central themes. The poems are traditional in form and follow rhyme and meter, done in in the fashion of Robert Louis Stevenson’s century-old classic, A Child’s Garden of Verses.
Topics include moonlit nights, snowy days, dreams of dinosaurs... Read more

The Lament

By: Ercell H Hoffman

Narrated by: Sky Allie

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A Sensuous Exploration of Love in All Its GloryThe Lament captures the full range of emotion that whirl around human relationships. Here are dozens of poems examining the profound joy of those deeply in love, the incredible longing of the separated partner, the intense loneliness of modern working life, and - above all - the indisputable... Read more

Trace Evidence

By: Charif Shanahan

Narrated by: Charif Shanahan

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Chicago Book of 2023



"A truly magical achievement." —Ocean Vuong



In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the... Read more

Perspective

By: Etrec White

Narrated by: Jason C. Johnson Sr.

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In Etrec White’s narrative poetry book, Perspective highlights the quest of two brothers.
After losing their parents at a young age, the brothers believe they’re finally living the good life when they discover a shocking truth surrounding their parents’ death. Motivated by a desire to avenge mom and dad, while having the support of their... Read more

The Star-Treader and Other Poems

By: Clark Ashton Smith

Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Clark Ashton Smith was a poet, sculptor, painter, and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft, from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mainly remembered today. With Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, also a friend and correspondent, Smith... Read more

The Adventures of Prissy and Missy

By: Karen Elise Wormack

Narrated by: Karen Elise Wormack

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

You're invited to take a wonderful journey with two of the sweetest sisters you may ever meet. Prissy and Missy are multi-cultural feline twins whose hearts and lives are filled with love, well being, curiosity, education and day to day adventurous experiences.
In this story, The Adventures of Prissy and Missy™ “Travel Abroad”, the second edition... Read more

The Adventures of Prissy and Missy

By: Karen Elise Wormack

Narrated by: Karen Elise Wormack

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

You’re invited to take a fantastic journey to the mysterious planet Mars with two of the sweetest sisters you may ever meet. Prissy and Missy are multicultural feline twins whose hearts and lives are consistently filled with love, curiosity, humor, well being, education and unforgettable day to day adventurous experiences.
In this powerfully... Read more

The Adventures of Prissy and Missy

By: Karen Elise Wormack

Narrated by: Karen Elise Wormack

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

You're invited to take a wonderful journey with two of the sweetest sisters you may ever meet. Prissy and Missy are multi-cultural feline twins whose hearts and lives are filled with love, forgiveness, curiosity, education and day to day adventurous experiences. In this story, The Adventures of Prissy and Missy (tm)"Sleepwalk Affair," you'll... Read more

Harbour Grids

By: Zane Koss

Narrated by: Zane Koss

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Harbour Grids is a long poem in four parts that investigates ideas of community and belonging. Beginning as a meditation on the surface of New York Harbor, the poem radiates outward through issues of labour, location, history, belonging, and subjectivity. How do we experience our complex relations to the world we live in? Harbour Grids seeks... Read more

Wherever We Mean to Be

By: Robyn Sarah

Narrated by: Robyn Sarah

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning forty years and ten previously published collections, Wherever We Mean to Be is the first substantial selection of Robyn Sarah’s poems since 1992. Chosen by the author, the 97 poems in this new volume highlight the versatility of a poet who moves easily between free verse, traditional forms, and prose poems. Familiar favorites are... Read more

Fragilidades

By: Sara Búho

Narrated by: Sara Búho

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

La belleza reside en todo aquello que no es intocable. La fragilidad florece en los momentos de mayor incertidumbre, pero es algo de lo que no nos podemos desprender. En este poemario la esencia de lo frágil despierta para hacernos ver que está presente en todos nosotros y que podemos valorarla como algo hermoso. A través de unos versos... Read more

Perdón a la lluvia

By: Sara Búho

Narrated by: Sara Búho

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Perdón a la lluvia es un conjunto de tormentas que no supimos navegar. Un viaje por todos los naufragios, por todo lo mal entendido. Una vuelta al dolor en brazos de la nostalgia. Un intento de convertir los recuerdos en alas, y que dejen de ser cadenas. Un paso atrás para recuperar lo que es valioso y quedó perdido en la huida, y también para... Read more

La Divina Comedia

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Rodrigo Martinez

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

La Divina Comedia es un poema épico escrito por el poeta italiano Dante Alighieri en el siglo XIV. La obra se divide en tres partes: Infierno, Purgatorio y Paraíso. En Infierno, Dante describe su descenso a través de los nueve círculos del infierno, donde se encuentran las almas de los pecadores que han cometido diversos crímenes. Cada... Read more

Who Killed Jerusalem?

By: George Albert Brown

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on?
With a tour-de-force narration by the multi-award-winning Patrick Lawlor, who uses his uncompromising talent to bring every character to life with an astonishing vocal range.
“A BIG, JOYOUS BOOK, WORTH READING
SIMPLY FOR THE FUN OF IT.”—BLUE INK REVIEW
“A... Read more

Minor Notes, Volume 1

By: Joshua Bennett & Jesse McCarthy

Narrated by: Joshua Bennett, Jesse McCarthy, Tracy K. Smith ...

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith

A Penguin Classic

Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across... Read more

This is not a poem

By: L. A. Cunningham

Narrated by: A. D. Milne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This is not a poem.It's barely even a book.It's one page making fun of poems that aren't poems.And now it’s a 42-second audiobook too! Perfect for those long road trips and the busy individual with no time to sit down with a book. Read more

Hold What Makes You Whole: Poems

By: Marcus Amaker

Narrated by: Marcus Amaker

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the audio version of Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker's tenth book, Hold What Makes You Whole. It is read by the author with original music sprinkled in the reading.~PRAISE.Hold What Makes You Whole is a gratifying meditative collection of poems accompanied by kaleidoscopic visual imagery that pulls you in, settles your mind, and makes way... Read more

No Sweet Without Brine

By: Cynthia Manick

Narrated by: Cynthia Manick

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a soulful and celebratory collection that summons sticky sweet memories with an acrid aftertaste of deep thought. Satisfying moments are captured in odes to Idris... Read more

Four in Hand

By: Alicia Mountain

Narrated by: Alicia Mountain

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language and white space equally captivate with their sparsity and abundance as Mountain pursues the... Read more

Messages For Love

By: Bethany Dalton

Narrated by: Alex Kashevaroff

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Destined to become an heirloom treasure: A wisdom guide and heartfelt journey into the truth of love in poems, statements and stories which open the heart. There is guidance, inspiration, encouragement, truth, wisdom, warnings, beautiful writing, profound messages, and in depth understanding here. Read more

Flickering

By: Pattiann Rogers

Narrated by: Pattiann Rogers & John A. Rogers

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Rogers’] poems bring an openness of spirit and an almost scientific curiosity to the world at her feet, cataloging unexpected connections everywhere she looks.” —New York Times Book Review

A new collection from a poet whose “celebrations of science and approachable yet profound spiritual connection to the Earth delight, entertain, and... Read more

The Songsculptor Method

By: Richard Melvin Brown

Narrated by: Richard Melvin Brown

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SONGSCULPTOR METHOD (How to write a GREAT commercial song) by Award Winning Songwriter Richard Melvin Brown includes musical-Clips and Examples pertaining to the subject matter. To actually hear what we are talking about in the (Musical-Clips and Examples) is a huge advantage in understanding the overall concepts in the art and craft of... Read more

Drive

By: Elaine Sexton

Narrated by: Elaine Sexton

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems exploring our most fragile points of connection to lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one's own life's work--with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads.
'Silently / pulling for itself, / the will wants the body to // give it what it wants,' Sexton writes in 'Between the Car and the Sea,' at once a... Read more

Useful Junk

By: Erika Meitner

Narrated by: Erika Meitner

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems.In her previous five collections of poetry, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of America’s most incisive observers, cherished for her remarkable ability to temper catastrophe with tenderness. In her newest... Read more