Poetry audiobooks
Nikki Giovanni: Love Poems & A Good Cry
By: Nikki Giovanni
Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Hear Nikki Giovanni read two extraordinary collections of her own work! A singular listening experience! The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has touched our national consciousness.Love Poems:... Read more
View audiobookTime Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among... Read more
The Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... Read more
View audiobookAt Blackwater Pond
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems,... Read more
View audiobookBeowulf: A New Translation
By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A new,... Read more
Any Man
By: Amber Tamblyn
Narrated by: Glenn Davis, Ben Foster, Marc Maron, Jason Ritt...
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In this electric and provocative debut novel, Tamblyn blends genres of poetry, prose, and elements of suspense to give shape to the shocking narratives of victims of sexual violence, mapping the destructive ways in which our society perpetuates rape culture, brilliantly brought to life through a multi-voice performance featuring Glenn Davis, Ben... Read more
View audiobookBLUFF
By: Danez Smith
Narrated by: Danez Smith
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities. This is a book of... Read more
View audiobookA Poetry Handbook
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”—Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.With... Read more
View audiobookThe Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Jay Bernard, Lesle...
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park), Michael Balogun (known for National Theatre Live: Macbeth), Jay... Read more
The Carrying
By: Ada Limón
Narrated by: Ada Limón
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.
Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A... Read more
The Sun and Her Flowers
By: Rupi Kaur
Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Rupi Kaur performs the first-ever recording of the sun and her flowers, her second #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose. This production was recorded in 2021 along with the brand-new audio edition of milk and honey and the debut audio recording of home body.
Divided into five chapters, this volume is a journey through the... Read more
The Mahabharata
By: Vyasa
Narrated by: Shaheen Khan & Sagar Arya
Length: 44 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Shaheen Khan. This definitive recording includes an introduction by J. D. Smith, read by Sagar Arya.
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a major text of Hinduism. Its... Read more
A Bit Much
By: Lyndsay Rush
Narrated by: Lyndsay Rush
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyful celebration of big feelings, tender truths, and hard-won wisdom, for fans of Maggie Smith, Kate Baer, and Kate Kennedy.
At long last, a book of poetry for people who didn’t even know they liked poetry. And... Read more
The Iliad
By: Homer & Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Dominic Keating
Length: 19 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion.... Read more
View audiobookStoryteller
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
Narrated by: Tara Gatewood
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"A rich, many-faceted book." -- The New York Times
A classic work of Native American literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko's groundbreaking book Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New... Read more
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems
By: Mikeas Sánchez
Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism... Read more
View audiobookThe Hurting Kind
By: Ada Limón
Narrated by: Ada Limón
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it... Read more
View audiobookA Fortune For Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that... Read more
View audiobookLife on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the... Read more
View audiobookCatalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that... Read more
Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
Narrated by: Maggie Millner
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone.A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are... Read more
View audiobookThe World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
Narrated by: Franny Choi
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending,... Read more
View audiobookWhen the Dark Spoke to Me
By: Christabelle Marbun
Narrated by: Christabelle Marbun
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life.
Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection When the Dark Spoke to Me to life through words wise beyond her years. Her uniquely positive perspective on life, death, and everything in... Read more
Goldenrod
By: Maggie Smith
Narrated by: Maggie Smith
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR
“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment.” —Time
“A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet.” —People
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Keep Moving, and Good Bones, a... Read more