Poetry audiobooks

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

Hacia tierras lejanas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Cesc Martínez

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Llega a la colección «Poesía portátil» una selección de los mejores versos de R.L. Stevenson. El anhelo por los paisajes lejanos y la nostalgia por la infancia sobrevuela estos poemas del autor de La isla del tesoro. El padre de La isla del tesoro solo llegó a publicar dos libros de poemas en vida, pero dejó muchos inéditos. Hacia tierras... Read more

A Season in Hell with Rimbaud

By: Dustin Pearson

Narrated by: Dustin Kyle Pearson

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship.The poems in Dustin Pearson’s A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two brothers’ mutual descent into hell. When the older brother runs off by himself, the younger brother... Read more

Canti

By: Giacomo Leopardi

Narrated by: Filippo Lanzi

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

La produzione in versi più conosciuta di Giacomo Leopardi. La raccolta si divide in quattro fasi: la prima riguarda temi erotici, il suicidio, la natura e il senso della vita; la seconda tratta i piccoli e i grandi idilli; la terza è dedicata alla donna di cui Leopardi si innamorò, Fanny Targioni Tozzetti; la quarta e ultima fase comprende... Read more

Thresh & Hold

By: Marlanda Dekine

Narrated by: Marlanda Dekine

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times New-in-Poetry featureMarlanda Dekine’s debut collection is a holy, radical unlearning and reclamation of self. What does it mean to be a Gullah-Geechee descendant from a rural place where a third of the nation’s founding wealth was harvested by trafficked West and Central Africans? Dekine’s poems travel across age and time,... Read more

Conference Of The Birds

By: Farid ud-Din Attar

Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur'an, 27:16, where Sulayman and Dāwūd are said to have been taught the language, or speech, of the birds.In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to... Read more

Spoken Word

By: Joshua Bennett

Narrated by: Joshua Bennett

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion

“Bennett…transport[s] us back to the city blocks, bars, cafes and stages these artists... Read more

Havamal

By: Olive Bray

Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features a special tribal ambient version of the full text in addition to the raw narration.These are the words of Odin the High One. Hávamál is presented as a single poem in the Icelandic Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic,... Read more

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

Narrated by: torrin a. greathouse

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in PoetryA CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a... Read more

Worldly Things

By: Michael Kleber-Diggs

Narrated by: Michael Kleber-Diggs

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection
A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021"
A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021
A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection
A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection

“Sometimes,” writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes... Read more

Bad Hobby

By: Kathy Fagan

Narrated by: Kathy Fagan

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a “fatal diagnosis,” how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body “meant to bend & breed” opts not to, then finds itself performing the... Read more

The Clearing

By: Allison Adair

Narrated by: Allison Adair

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with rich imagination and a singular incisiveness, “asserting feminist viewpoints and mortal terror in lush musical lines” (New York Times).

The women in Allison Adair’s debut collection—luminous and electric from the first... Read more

The Milk Hours

By: John James

Narrated by: John James

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss.“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of... Read more

The Rupture Tense

By: Jenny Xie

Narrated by: Jenny Xie

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory... Read more

Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

Narrated by: Clint Smith

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.

Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.... Read more

Human Resources

By: Ryann Stevenson

Narrated by: Ryann Stevenson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Ryann Stevenson’s Human Resources is a sobering and perceptive portrait of technology’s impact on connection and power.Human Resources follows a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don’t exist. In discerning verse, she workshops the facial characteristics of a floating head... 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

North American Stadiums

By: Grady Chambers

Narrated by: Grady Chambers

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.“You were supposed to find God here / the signs said.” In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry... Read more

Joseph von Eichendorff: Die Hörbuch Box

By: Joseph von Eichendorff

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph von Eichendorff gilt als DER Erzähler der Romantik. In diesem Hörbuch vereint sind die Erzählungen: Das Marmorbild, Das Schloss Dürande, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts sowie ausgewählte Gedichte. Read more

Remember

By: Joy Harjo

Narrated by: Joy Harjo

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s iconic poem "Remember" invites young listeners to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, and to remember the importance of their place in it.

Remember the sky you were born under,
Know each of the star's stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.
Remember the sun's birth at dawn,
That is the strongest... Read more

The Castle of Indolence

By: James Thomson

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Castle of Indolence was published early in the summer of 1748, four months after the poet’s death. The work was a slow and leisurely composition, which took nearly fifteen years to complete.The poem consists of 158 stanzas, divided into two cantos. It is presented as an allegory and was professedly written in imitation of The Faerie... Read more

Wires that Sputter

By: Britta Badour

Narrated by: Britta Badour

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful debut collection from an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet.

Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Finalist
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Shortlist
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Shortlist
Raymond Souster Award, Longlist

With propulsive, intimate stylings and an eye toward Black liberations, pop culture, sports, and familial fractures,... Read more

Girl Made of Glass

By: Shelby Leigh

Narrated by: Shelby Leigh

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

If you think often about the past or battle with overthinking and self-esteem, girl made of glass is for you. This collection is about finding yourself, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself. It explores the many ways our past haunts us but will leave you feeling hopeful about your future.



girl made of glass is a poetry collection about how our... Read more