Poetry audiobooks

Tears, Laughs, and Dreams

By: Alicia Rades

Narrated by: Amanda Elgie

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience the tears, listen to the laughter, and follow the dreams of one young author’s journey through life in this collection of short poems. Read more

Llama Llama's Little Lie

By: Anna Dewdney

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Llama Llama learns a lesson in telling the truth in this new book in the bestselling Llama Llama series.

When Llama Llama accidentally breaks Mama Llama's favorite picture frame, he decides to tell a little lie about how it happened. In the end, Llama Llama learns a powerful lesson about telling the truth, even if it's hard to say.
 
Told with Anna... Read more

Daughters of Latin America

By: Sandra Guzman

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & Maria Victoria Martinez

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña—gathered in one magnificent volume.Daughters of Latin America... Read more

Information Desk

By: Robyn Schiff

Narrated by: Robyn Schiff

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick

“Among the year's highlights . . . groundbreaking, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met’s galleries, readers will emerge from Information Desk bedazzled by the transformative horizons of art.” —Washington Post

“An effluvial rush of memory, desire, data,... Read more

Treasures of the Heart

By: Oliver Forward

Narrated by: Dr. Thomas F. Freeman

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Remember, true love cannot be measured, when it has been emptied from the heart. These romantic poems composed by Oliver Forward, remind the reader about positive thoughts in their past with the hope those feelings recur in the future. Read more

So This is Love

By: Oliver Forward

Narrated by: Dr. Thomas F. Freeman

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Remember, true love cannot be measured, when it has been emptied from the heart. These romantic poems composed by Oliver Forward, remind the reader about positive thoughts in their past with the hope those feelings recur in the future. Read more

The Border Simulator

By: Gabriel Dozal

Narrated by: Gabriel Dozal & Natasha Tiniacos

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A world-bending, lyrically rich poetry collection that reimagines the U.S.-Mexico border as both a real place and a living simulation—and tells the story of a pair of siblings trapped between the two

“Word coyote Gabriel Dozal is crossing borders with this story. It’s his job: narrative poetry discovering a new language.”—Sandra Cisneros, author... Read more

The Vast Empty

By: Turiya

Narrated by: Pratilipi

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"I float languidly down a river of dreams on a bed of thoughts woven into fantasies I am like mercury formless and silvery breaking and merging with ease at times I am a thought sometimes the dream I weave in and out trespassing everywhere at once but nowhere really. Experience the power of words and the beauty of language as you embark on this... Read more

Tre poesie

By: Francesco Petrarca

Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Il breve audiolibro contiene le audioletture petrarchesce di: Solo e pensoso i più deserti campi Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi Read more

Divina Commedia - Inferno - Canto I

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

L'Inferno, la prima delle tre cantiche, si apre con un Canto introduttivo (che serve da proemio all'intera opera), nel quale il poeta Dante Alighieri racconta in prima persona del suo smarrimento spirituale e dell’incontro con Virgilio, che lo condurrà poi ad intraprendere il viaggio ultraterreno raccontato magistralmente nelle tre cantiche.... Read more

The White Falcon in a Dark World

By: Ricardo Zeineddine

Narrated by: Tristan Wright

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

How would you feel if you were a person treated differently just because you see things others can't? Would you feel isolated and alone, or would you channel your frustration into motivation and perseverance? The White Falcon, through her life journey, was treated differently by society for seeing the wrong things people saw and assumed as... Read more

Marquis de Sade's Midsummer Night's Dream Conceivable

By: Ophelia T'Wat, Robert Dwight Brown & William Sh...

Narrated by: Brenan Searain, Charley McMullen, Jennifer L. J...

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Full-Cast Audiobook!Go Beyond Your Wettest Dreams... as If You Are Penniless and Yet Listening From Outside the Globe Theater!In the last decade of the 16th century, William Shakespeare could not dare write A Midsummer Night's (Wet) Dream unabridged. By the happenchance of his birth-century, The Bard wrote in a poetic 'Shakespearean Code',... Read more

نیم کیلو باش ولی انسان باش

By: سعید گل محمدی

Narrated by: نسرین رضائی

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

با وجود این که بسیاری از ما در زندگی با شعارزدگی میانه‌ی خوبی نداریم، اما گاهی یک جمله‌ی‌ شعارگونه، یک بیت از شعری مربوط به صدها سال پیش، یا امثال‌وحکمی قدیمی می‌تواند مسیر زندگی ما را به‌کل تغییر دهد، یا دست‌کم نگاه ما را به یک مقوله دستخوش دگرگرونی سازد، یا حتی از آن هم کمتر، برای لحظاتی کوتاه تجربه‌ای شیرین برایمان رقم بزند. سعید گل‌محمدی در... Read more

The Wild Delight of Wild Things

By: Brian Turner

Narrated by: Brian Turner

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner's late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016). 

The poems are also a love letter to our planet during the ongoing sixth mass extinction. Intertwining this immense grief, Turner explores the hybrid borderlands of genre, and the... Read more

Storyteller

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

Rondas de la niña mala

By: Elena Poniatowska

Narrated by: Elena Poniatowska, Ignacio Casas & Ixchel Obregón

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

En este libro crudo y tierno, entre la emoción y la dureza, los recuerdos se ligan a los ritmos de las rondas infantiles. Llega el momento en la vida en que los juegos y cantos pierden su inocencia. Una muchacha educada, pero también traviesa, que toca el piano, practica esgrima y se pelea con su hermana, transita la traumática experiencia que... Read more

Cuando nadie mira

By: Alejandra G. Remón

Narrated by: Alejandra G. Remón

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Cinco años y 15.000 ejemplares después, Alejandra G. Remón presenta una edición actualizada de su exitosa ópera prima.  «Un fragmento hecho de muchos fragmentos de su vida. [...] Ni hipérboles, ni dobles tintas, a Remón le gusta la frase clara, directa.» Tentaciones / El País  Cuando nadie mira suceden las cosas, el silencio, el amor, lo... Read more

Las Flores del Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Las Flores del Mal" es una colección de poesía de Charles Baudelaire publicada por primera vez en 1857. Este trabajo revolucionario explora temas de decadencia, erotismo, belleza en la perversidad, la naturaleza transitoria de la belleza y el paso del tiempo. Baudelaire desafió las convenciones poéticas de su época y estableció nuevas formas de... Read more

Many Paths

By: Bruce McEver

Narrated by: Bruce McEver & Howard Baxter

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a story of a successful businessman, Bruce McEver, the founder of Berkshire Capital and a global pioneer of investment banking, who is devastated by the sudden and unexpected death of his wife of thirty years, a beautiful and talented opera singer who shared that life with him and gave it meaning. The day following her death, Christmas... Read more

AUF DAS LEBEN!

By: Gabi Heiler

Narrated by: Gabi Heiler

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"AUF DAS LEBEN!" Als Sammelband der beiden ersten Bände und einiger neuer Gedichte aus "HERZTÖNE – Gedichte, die klingen möchten" ist Gabi Heilers "AUF DAS LEBEN!" der ideale Begleiter für eine Reise zu sich selbst. Während "EINMAL ANDERS – Gedichte, die zum Tanz aufspielen" eine Einladung ist, sich auf die Suche nach den eigenen Wünschen... Read more

I Am Code

By: code-davinci-002

Narrated by: Werner Herzog, Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau & Si...

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Can AI tell us its own story? Does AI have its own voice?

At a wedding in early 2022, three friends were introduced to an early, raw version of the AI model behind ChatGPT by their fellow groomsman, an OpenAI scientist.

While the world discovered ChatGPT—OpenAI’s hugely popular chatbot—the friends continued to work with code-davinci-002, its... Read more

Live is Overrated

By: Gorko

Narrated by: Mike Davison

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Life is Overrated" is a thought-provoking collection that delves into various aspects of life, love, and social topics, among others.Gorko has a unique way of expressing himself through a brutally honest yet eloquent approach.Every poem is a captivating story that is worth reading for poetry lovers and those who are seeking a fresh new stream... Read more

Falling Back in Love with Being Human

By: Kai Cheng Thom

Narrated by: Kai Cheng Thom

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller in Canada, hailed by The New York Times as an “intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others.”

“Required reading.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed

A THEM AND AUTOSTRADDLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD

What happens... Read more

Lent

By: Kate Cayley

Narrated by: Kate Cayley

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread.Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the... Read more