Poetry audiobooks

Stag's Leap

By: Sharon Olds

Narrated by: Sharon Olds

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love’s sight; the... Read more

Indecency

By: Justin Phillip Reed

Narrated by: Justin Phillip Reed

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.

Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white... Read more

If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse

By: Ellen Palestrant

Narrated by: Ellen Palestrant

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse, a collection of poems to be enjoyed by all ages, you will enter New Worlds of Possibility that are dreamlike, imaginative, humorous, lyrical, and thought-provoking. Poems from and inspired by The World of Glimpse, written and illustrated by Ellen Palestrant. A theatrical audio treat for... Read more

Poemas de Edgar Allan Poe - Abridged

By: Ángel Ferrer

Narrated by: Ángel Ferrer

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta pequeña antología de Edgar Allan Poe, recoge, a mi modo de ver, los poemas más mágicos del autor. Es sabido que todos los poetas, durante su carrera, escriben poemas por oficio. Lo que quiere decir que no todos obedecen a las leyes naturales de la belleza, a la pulsión del poeta. Por esto, esta selección, son un fiel reflejo del mundo de... Read more

You Can't Keep It

By: K.B. Marie

Narrated by: K.B. Marie

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the sudden loss of her mother, poet K.B. Marie explores the meaning of life and love after great loss. Nature and zen themes featured throughout. Read more

The Lyme Letters

By: C. R. Grimmer

Narrated by: C. R. Grimmer

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lyme Letters is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir. R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery through recurrent letters to doctors, pets, family members, lovers, and a “Master.” R, in letter form and repurposed religious texts, also explores the paradoxical experiences of queer... Read more

329 Haiku Poems for Your Spiritual Practice

By: Adrian Tanase

Narrated by: Adrian Tanase

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this rather extensive collection of 3-line Japanese haiku poems, the mystical blends with the simplicity of the world to create sacred, transparent, and yet profound and inspiring insights, to guide you further, on your spiritual path. Listening to these poems will sustain your mindfulness and will inspire you to practice/meditate more, in... Read more

Ordinary Blessings

By: Meta Herrick Carlson

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The ordinary moments of life can be sacred, if we simply take a moment to notice. This collection of prayers, poems, and meditations offers a brief respite from the hectic, harried pace of our days. Listen to this book when the spirit moves you or when the spirit feels distant—the words will be here to inspire, calm, and encourage you either... Read more

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By: T.S. Eliot

Narrated by: Sam Kusi

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, is an analysis of a beleaguered, multi-layered, and conflicted suitor, trying to reconcile his dichotomy of having a foray of overwhelming ideas juxtaposed with underwhelming execution, in the arena of life and love. It was the poetic debut of the American-born, British poet, T.S Eliot. The poem was... Read more

Cry Back My Sea

By: Sarah Arvio

Narrated by: Sarah Arvio

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet

“I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,” Arvio confesses in the poem “Small War.” The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love... Read more

Welcome to Midland

By: Logen Cure

Narrated by: Logen Cure

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Midland is a queer coming-of-age narrative in verse set against the backdrop of conservative small-town Texas. These linked poems explore the cultural and natural history of West Texas (from the horned lizard to dirt storms to Laura Bush’s car accident), connecting events and movements from across eras to create a tenuous yet strong... Read more

Poems - 1905-1911

By: George Woodberry, Margaret Lavington & Rupert B...

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems - 1905-1911


By Rupert Brooke


Narrated by Denis Daly


Not all the young poets whose lives were cut short during the First World War were actual casualties of the conflict. James Elroy Flecker and Rupert Brooke both died in 1915, each leaving a body of finished work which places him in the ranks of the major poets of the Twentieth Century.


Brooke... Read more

Nunca dejes de creer en el amor

By: Alejandro Ordóñez

Narrated by: Alejandro Ordóñez

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

El amor es un camino que se nos revela sin esperarlo. En este libro, Alejandro Ordóñez nos muestra las profundidades de cada una de las fases de una relación: desde el primer destello de posibilidad hasta la estabilidad romántica, explorando también qué sucede cuando una relación no puede dar más de sí y se decide separar los caminos, sin perder... Read more

Una mujer en la garganta

By: Marwán

Narrated by: Marwán

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Un audiolibro recitado por el propio autor que es una reivindicación de los amores pasionales y de la belleza, pero también una autorreivindicación poética, mundo en el que Marwán se siente un apátrida al no reconocerse dentro de ninguna tradición. De todos sus poemarios es el más rebelde, tanto en su manera de subrayar el frenesí amoroso y la... Read more

Death Maiden

By: Kara Storm

Narrated by: Nichalia Schwartz

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

*poetryMy father is a king, my sister is a princess . . . and I am a death maiden.My heart has been captured by a warrior boy, but a valkyrie has no time for love. Valhalla awaits the delivery of honored dead, and any delay will draw unwanted attention. Attention that will put the boy I love in danger, and my loyalty to Asgard in question.The... Read more

A Year in the New Life

By: Jack Underwood

Narrated by: Jack Underwood

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Jack Underwood's poetry debut, Happiness (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular' (Guardian). Such qualities are on accomplished display in this anticipated new collection, as the poems mature and move on to a wide range of preoccupations,... Read more

A Natural History of Unnatural Things

By: Zachari Logan

Narrated by: Zachari Logan

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A microscopic and intense view of the sometimes invisible and ignored parts of the world we inhabit. Peering into cities and our place within them, the poet searches for meaning after the death of his father, and reflects on his own experience growing up queer in a prairie city. Read more

You Should Probably Listen to This: Bullets and Butterflies

By: Karl Lokko

Narrated by: Karl Lokko

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most potent and inspiring young voices in the country, Bullets and Butterflies is an audio original like no other.

Karl Lokko is the man who should be dead. A former gang leader, by the age of 16 he had been cut in the face, stabbed, and shot at more times than he'd had birthday parties. In Bullets and Butterflies, Karl shares... Read more

Kinky Thoughts And Poems

By: Nsingo Sakala & Jasmine Kaur

Narrated by: Nikki Delgado

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Curators of Elite adult events and experiences, Nsingo and Jasmine, bring you an exquisite collection of quotes and poems geared towards easing curious minds into the world of soft Kink and sexual exploration. This book may be read in any order, and in any setting. It has been used by couples and singles to enhance sexual fantasies inside and... Read more

Alessandro Manzoni

By: Boris Bertolini

Narrated by: Corrado Niro

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Le vite dei maggiori autori della letteratura italiana narrate come una storia, con musiche e suoni. Unendo cultura e intrattenimento, questo audiolibro fornirà un'esperienza multimediale unica e rilassante a chiunque decida di ascoltarlo. Amanti della lettura, non disperate, non ci siamo dimenticati di voi! Il testo è infatti disponibile anche... Read more

Ugo Foscolo

By: Boris Bertolini

Narrated by: Corrado Niro

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Le vite dei maggiori autori della letteratura italiana narrate come una storia, con musiche e suoni. Unendo cultura e intrattenimento, questo audiolibro fornirà un'esperienza multimediale unica e rilassante a chiunque decida di ascoltarlo. Amanti della lettura, non disperate, non ci siamo dimenticati di voi! Il testo è infatti disponibile anche... Read more

Giosuè Carducci

By: Boris Bertolini

Narrated by: Corrado Niro

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Le vite dei maggiori autori della letteratura italiana narrate come una storia, con musiche e suoni. Unendo cultura e intrattenimento, questo audiolibro fornirà un'esperienza multimediale unica e rilassante a chiunque decida di ascoltarlo. Amanti della lettura, non disperate, non ci siamo dimenticati di voi! Il testo è infatti disponibile anche... Read more

Hearing What I Hear, Seeing what I See

By: Meghan Dilley

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

She received her BA in English from Franklin and Marshall College in 2001 and after teaching for two years decided to pursue a career in physical therapy. She graduated with her DPT in physical therapy from Rutgers School of Health Professions, formerly known as The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2009 and has been working... Read more

M Archive

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Narrated by: Angel Pean

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and... Read more