SHOUT
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by... Read more
Bread and Circus
By: Airea D. Matthews
Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
โDiscerning and significant.โ โPoetry Foundation
โA sharp memoir in verse.โ โLitHub
This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphiaโs former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and... Read more
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
Narrated by: Warsan Shire
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncรฉโs Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
โThe beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.โโRoxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
โShire is the real thingโfresh, cutting, indisputably... Read more
Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times
By: Taisia Kitaiskaia
Narrated by: Zura Johnson
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Baba Yaga offers more off-kilter remedies for the modern dilemmas of an unstable age using her uncanny style, poetic simplicity, and surprising candor.
In this follow-up toย Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, award-winning writer Taisia Kitaiskaia once again embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to... Read more
We Want Our Bodies Back
By: jessica Care moore
Narrated by: jessica Care moore
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both... Read more
View audiobookSpace Struck
By: Paige Lewis
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores the wonders and cruelties occurring within the realms of nature, science, and religion, with the acuity of a sage, the deftness of a hunter, and a hilarious sensibility for the absurd. The universe is seen as an endless arrow โ. . . and it asks... Read more
View audiobookPillow Thoughts
By: Courtney Peppernell
Narrated by: Courtney Peppernell
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions, read by the author herself. Read more
View audiobookFierce Fairytales
By: Nikita Gill
Narrated by: Nikita Gill
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.
Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory.
But in this... Read more
If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
โA debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.โโBooklist
โElegant and playful . . . The poetย invents new forms and updates classic ones.โโElle
โ[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.โโThe New Yorker
NAMED ONE OF... Read more
Enemies in the Orchard
By: Dana VanderLugt
Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Elizabeth Klett & Rachel Leblang
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW whoโs processing the war as he works on Claireโs family... Read more
View audiobookThe How
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become
Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible;ย through her writing for Beyoncรฉ on Black Is King; and through her always... Read more
Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Diaz
Narrated by: Natalie Diaz
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection
Postcolonial Love Poem, the brilliant second collection from Natalie Diaz, holds in its pages the urgent appeal for all bodiesโbodies of... Read more
Everything Comes Next
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye & James Patrick Cronin
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Beloved and acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye is the current Young Peopleโs Poet Laureate, serving until August 2021. This celebratory book collects in one volume her most popular and accessible poems from the past forty years. Featuring new, never-before-published poems, an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch, as well as a... Read more
View audiobookThe Terrible
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward & Howard Daley-Ward
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of theย PEN Ackerley Prize โข Longlisted for the 2019ย PEN Open Book Award
โDevastating and lyrical.โย โThe New York Times
โSuspenseful and affecting.โย โThe New Yorker
From the celebrated poet behindย bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding... Read more
Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome
By: Deepak Chopra, Kabir Sehgal & Paul Avgerinos
Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Written and composed by immigrants and first generation Americans, Home provides a stronger sense of welcome and belonging for everyone.
The United States is composed of and built by immigrants, and it has been a beacon to those in search of a new life for hundreds of years.
Home is a collection of thirty-four poems and twelve songs inspired by... Read more
Good Poems - Abridged
By: Various
Narrated by: Ensemble cast & Garrison Keillor
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good... Read more
View audiobookAtop an Underwood
By: Jack Kerouac & Paul Marion
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden & Bronson Pinchot
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write.Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two, ranging from stories and poems to plays and... Read more
View audiobookSongs of Innocence and of Experience
By: William Blake
Narrated by: various narrators, Bria Sterling, Laura E. Rich...
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection arguably contains some of the most charming lyrics ever written in English. The childlike simplicity and trust of these artless verses are unique.Blakeโs poems can be enjoyed, not only for their historical importance in an age which was fiercely proud of its genius and its traditions, but also for their simple and beautiful... Read more
View audiobookMagic Enuff
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
Narrated by: Tara M. Stringfellow
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Radiant poems that celebrate Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author of Memphis.
โA gorgeous collection exploring the bond and beauty of Black womanhood.โโWarsan Shire, author of Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
โGod can stay asleep /... Read more
Mother Goose for Grown-Ups
By: Guy Wetmore Carryl
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Mother Goose for Grown-Ups" is a delightful reinvention of classic nursery rhymes tailored for a more mature audience. In this witty and irreverent collection, Carryl puts a humorous spin on beloved childhood favorites such as "Humpty Dumpty," "Jack and Jill," and "Mary Had a Little Lamb," with each rhyme being transformed into a clever and... Read more
View audiobookPoetry
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The father of Ulysses, The Dublineers, and Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce) was also an avidly prolific poet. As of recently, most of his poems entered the public domain, so let us continue with this season's overarching theme of reading early twentieth century Irish Literature, and do a deep dive on the poems of one of Ireland's greatest literary... Read more
View audiobookComplete Nonsense
By: Edward Lear
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The full collection of Nonsense poems by the father of nonsense poetry, Edward Lear. Come with me and experience fantastical vignettes of unscrupulous individuals as only Edward Lear can present them. Come find yourself in indescribable predicaments with equally hilarious resolutions. Edward Lear has taken great pains for this to be fun for the... Read more
View audiobookGrimm Tales Made Gay
By: Guy Wetmore Carryl
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"Grimm Tales Made Gay" is a hilarious reinterpretation of classic Grimm fairy tales infused with humor and irreverence. In this collection, each Brother's Grimm tale is transformed into a witty and whimsical narrative, featuring absurd situations, clever wordplay, and unexpected plot developments. From Cinderella's sassy stepsisters to Little... Read more
View audiobookFables for the Frivolous
By: Guy Wetmore Carryl
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Come and experience this delightfully humorous collection of satirical fables that playfully subvert traditional moral lessons, entitled "Fables for the Frivolous" by Guy Wetmore Carryl. Each fable presents a witty and whimsical tale featuring talking animals, mythical creatures, and foolish humans, all navigating absurd situations with clever... Read more
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