Poetry audiobooks

Wild Embers

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover a powerful and relatable poetry collection of love, loss, and healing -- perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace.

In this magical poetry collection, Nikita Gill unflinchingly explores the fire in every woman and the emotions that lie deep in one's soul. Featuring rewritten fairytale heroines, goddess wisdom, and verse that... Read more

Soul Looks Back in Wonder

By: Various

Narrated by: Cary Hite & Allyson Johnson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"The selections are uniformly uplifting, with affirming messages about the heritage, strength and dreams of African Americans."—Publishers Weekly

In this compelling collection, thirteen major poets rise in response to the dazzling vistas and emotionally vivid portraits of award-winning artist Tom Feelings.

A unique and moving collaboration that... Read more

Locura Exquisita

By: Denni Zú

Narrated by: Denni Zú

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Mi antología, compilar todas mis emociones expresadas en poemas, batirlas en un montón de hojas mezclando mi rabia por una sociedad indolente, las ganas de querer seducir a la vida sin importar los roles ya escritos de esa forma, la perfección se escapa de mi puño derramando impulsividad de lo incoherente, querer encontrar una línea en mi... Read more

All Our Wild Wonder

By: Sarah Kay

Narrated by: Sarah Kay

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned poet Sarah Kay, a single volume poem perfect for teachers and mentors.

All Our Wild Wonder is a vibrant tribute to extraordinary educators and a celebration of learning. The perfect gift for the mentors in our lives, this charming, illustrated poem reminds us of the beauty in, and importance of, cultivating curiosity, creativity,... Read more

The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth

By: Jaime Adoff

Narrated by: Jaime Adoff

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Each word running fast across lips./A direct line to my hips, twist and shake./My voice another arm, another leg./My throat the Cape Canaveral of my soul.

This rockin' collection of twenty-four dynamic, original poems vividly captures a variety of musical experiences from the teen perspective. From playing in the school band to playing air... Read more

That Kind of Mother

By: Rumaan Alam

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed • The Boston Globe •  The Millions • InStyle • Southern Living“With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam’s second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking.”
   — Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires EverywhereFrom the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a... Read more

Tropic of Squalor

By: Mary Karr

Narrated by: Mary Karr

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A new volume of poetry from the New York Times bestselling and esteemed author of The Liar’s Club and Lit.Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of... Read more

The Soulswimmer

By: Alphie McCourt

Narrated by: Alphie McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Jack O'Connell...

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Soulswimmer is a witty and insightful collection of stories, verses, and songs by Alphie McCourt, the youngest of the literary McCourt brothers famous for their Irish memoirs. Read more

Un Pueblo fuera del Mapa

By: José Hogas

Narrated by: José Hogas

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Y si estoy aquí, No es porque sé caminar o porque al norte Le brillan los ojos, el corazón no sabe de Esas cosas, y esta vez, yo lo he seguido... Aquí estoy Y desconozco la forma en que me pasa, Podría lastimarme horas y horas, Y aunque las palomas, y aunque el tren Ruidoso de mi pueblo intente despertarme, No conseguirían más que atarme De pies... Read more

Limehaven

By: Vicky Arthurs

Narrated by: Vicky Arthurs

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Share the wonder... evocative poetry celebrating the love between grandparent and child.
This charming, nostalgic poetry collection is written and narrated by British poet Vicky Arthurs. Inspired by childhood memories of her grandparents, Vicky’s vivid, tender poems capture time spent together and wonders shared. Her poetry explores of themes of... Read more

Con un Wantán Atorado en el Alma

By: Alejandro López Palacios

Narrated by: Alejandro López Palacios

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This set of poems may seem disconnected or inconsistent. And to a large extent it is: There is no thematic unit or a predetermined fixed scheme. Not even a single voice, given that they gather almost a decade of work in this to write verses. Disparejo: Visceral at times, neat and attached to formal at other times. Poetry that denies surnames,... Read more

Beowulf

By: Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering recreates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more... Read more

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Best-Loved Poems

By: Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Narrated by: Steven Pacey & Joanna David

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventy-one poems are included from these two influential poets of nineteenth century England who were also man and wife. The poetry reveals their passion, ideas, and dedication to social causes. This two-CD set offers the listener a convenient way to hear favorite poems of Elizabeth easilyand find the preferred poetry of Robert with maximum... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer & Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolstoy called The Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer's story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven't been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing... Read more

The Dark Interval

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Rosanne Cash & Ulrich Baer

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.

“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins

“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”—The Guardian

Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s... Read more

All of Us

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into... Read more

Autobiography of Red

By: Anne Carson

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.


Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile,... Read more

Heart Talk

By: Cleo Wade

Narrated by: Cleo Wade

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade—the artist, poet, and speaker who has been called “the Millennial Oprah” by New York magazine—that offers creative inspiration and life lessons through poetry, mantras, and affirmations, perfect for fans of the bestseller Milk & Honey.

True to her hugely popular Instagram account, Cleo Wade brings... Read more

the princess saves herself in this one

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing your own ending.

From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final... Read more

the witch doesn't burn in this one

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns in the witch doesn't burn in this one — the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series. 

The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take control of... Read more

The Body's Question

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves... Read more

Wade in the Water

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted,... Read more

Duende

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the... Read more

O, What a Luxury

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In his second collection of poetry (the first 77 Love Sonnets) Keillor writes—with his characteristic combination of humor and insight—on love, modernity, nostalgia, politics, religion, and other facets of daily life. Keillor’s verses are charming and playful, locating sublime song within the humdrum of being human. Read more