Poetry audiobooks

No Matter the Wreckage LIVE

By: Sarah Kay

Narrated by: Sarah Kay

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases the LIVE recording of her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. This live recording of Sarah Kay's reading of No Matter the Wreckage, at The Wild Project in NYC, presents listeners with the new and beloved poetry that showcases Kay's... Read more

Inward

By: Yung Pueblo

Narrated by: Yung Pueblo

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

true poweris livingthe realizationthat you are your ownhealer, hero, and leaderInward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the listener that healing,... Read more

Brown

By: Kevin Young

Narrated by: Kevin Young

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection.

“Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.” —The New York Times

Divided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way... Read more

Wine Songs, Vinegar Verses

By: Harambee Grey-Sun

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White & Caroline Morahan

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes lovers enter a relationship with the best of intentions but wind up in a place far from love.  Sometimes poets attempt love poems, simple and pure, but . . . Over breakfast, a husband trying to deny creeping out on his wife the previous night can’t help but give hints about the creepy things he really did. On a beach, a man minding his... Read more

Nouns & Verbs

By: Campbell McGrath

Narrated by: Campbell McGrath

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets.Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of America’s most highly lauded poets. Offering a hint of where he’s headed while charting the territory... Read more

That Looks On Tempests

By: Barbie Robinson

Narrated by: Barbie Robinson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"People, places and paradoxes. Barbie Robinson’s third book of poetry contains a playfulness to delight the reader along with sudden insights into the nature of relationships." - Sara Dowse, author of As the Lonely Fly and West BlockBarbie Robinson is a Canberra Australia-based arts advocate, artist and poet whose practice encompasses writing,... Read more

Sacarse La Flecha del Corazón

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Yara Liceaga-Rojas

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Walker, the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple—“an American novel of permanent importance” (San Francisco Chronicle)—offers the Spanish-language editions of poems in her new bi-lingual collection, a collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving.

Alice Walker shares a timely volume... Read more

The Poetic Edda

By: Jackson Crawford

Narrated by: Jackson Crawford

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion’s share of... Read more

Jabberwocky

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: George Keller

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Jabberwocky” is one of the most well-known nonsense poems in the English language. Though full of playful made-up words like “brillig,” “mimsy,” and frumious,” the poem still tells a story. A young warrior faces up against the fearsome Jabberwock, armed with a “vorpal blade,” and comes out triumphant: “O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” This... Read more

HeteroSexual Chaos

By: Joseph Batte

Narrated by: Joseph

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Embrace yourself with a rare genre: Poetic Short Stories. Twenty-four poetic short stories, embedded with sparks of life drama and humor. Think through a box, rather than its outside, understanding life fully; with both an inside, and outside perspective. Why restrict your subconscious? Read more

How to Love a Country

By: Richard Blanco

Narrated by: Richard Blanco

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and people—immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more.

Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that... Read more

The Long Take

By: Robin Robertson

Narrated by: Kerry Shale

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

**Finalist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize**
**Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize**

From the award-winning British author—a poet's noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by... Read more

Elijah

By: A LeRoy

Narrated by: A LeRoy

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dangerous Prophet for Dangerous Times!(Author's Narration)
Israel. 9th-century BC. Jezebel has killed the true prophets of the Lord, and Elijah must flee her wrath.
But he is not alone. Embraced by a shapeshifting goddess, counseled by a great angel, he is empowered to call down fire from Heaven!
In the spirit of Dante, Shakespeare, and Homer,... Read more

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

By: Mary Lambert

Narrated by: Mary Lambert

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across is read by Mary Lambert and includes original music exclusive to the audiobook.

Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down—and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as... Read more

No More Poems!

By: Rhett Miller

Narrated by: Nick Offerman

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rhett Miller teams up with Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat in a riotous collection of irreverent poems for modern families.

In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well as a perceptive eye to the foibles of modern family life. Full of clever... Read more

Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Secrets

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular and profound inspirational writers of all time explores the mysteries of life. Here is bite-sized wisdom for daily living.Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Secrets is a collection of Gibran’s words on life’s big questions and the mysteries of the spiritual path. It is an exploration of the riddles and conundrums that are... Read more

Un Attimo Fa

By: Anthony Marchese

Narrated by: Antonio Marchese

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Una stampa contemporanea di un libro prodotto in precedenza realizzato a mano Read more

i hear rustling

By: Anthony Marchese

Narrated by: Anthony Marchese

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An audio presentation of a hand bound book collection. Read more

Canciones con beso para las buenas noches (Cuentos con beso)

By: Varios autores

Narrated by: Gemma Humet

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Te acuerdas de las canciones que te cantaban cuando eras niño para dormir? Porque no hay momento más dulce que el del beso de buenas noches... te hemos seleccionado algunas de las canciones y juegos de falda más conocidos para cantar y disfrutar con los más pequeños de la casa justo antes de ir a dormir. * Cu-cú cantaba la rana * Tengo una... Read more

Piel de letra

By: Laura Escanes

Narrated by: Laura Escanes

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Cada piel es un mundo por descubrir. «Mis nociones sobre tu piel eran nulas y me moría de ganas de aprender a tocarte y acariciarte pero no sabía ni cómo empezar. Cuestión de pieles dicen. Cuestiones de cada piel será. Porque cada piel es un mundo nuevo por descubrir».
Laura Escanes Escucha ahora el debut editorial de Laura Escanes con este... Read more

Ahora que ya bailas

By: Miguel Gane

Narrated by: Miguel Gane

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

El nuevo poemario del autor de Con tal de verte volar, Miguel Gane, ahora en formato audiolibro Naces, creces, amas, te rompen, aprendes y no mueres hasta que alguien deja de quererte. Estos poemas son la historia de Ella, la que fue callada porque sus gritos resonaban demasiado alto. Ella, que dejó de ser suya porque quien debía liberar su... Read more

Dust On The Mountain

By: Ruskin Bond

Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bisnu finds how dangerous and lonely life can be for a boy who has to leave his home to earn money for his family. As he sets to work on the limestone quarries with the choking dust enveloping the beautiful mountain air, he longs for home more than ever. Read more

Primero de poeta

By: Patricia Benito

Narrated by: Patricia Benito

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro de poesía que, autoeditado por su autora, escaló las listas de Amazon y ha conquistado a miles de lectores. « Vive, joder, vive.
Y si algo no te gusta, cámbialo.
Y si algo te da miedo, supéralo.
Y si algo te enamora, agárralo.» Primero de poeta son todos los papeles que rellené y quemé, todos los pasos que no di, las vidas que perdí.... Read more

Book of Longing

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Leonard Cohen

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Book of Longing has exceptional range. It is clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound.”—New York TimesLeonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los... Read more