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Small Cures
By: Della Hicks-Wilson
Narrated by: Della Hicks-Wilson
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the British viral poet Della Hicks-Wilson comes an empowering and lyrical collection of short, interconnected poems about the heart, letting go, and a healing love, that readers can carry and quote for a lifetime.
Small Cures is at once a compelling reminder to anyone struggling with heartbreak, mental health, or trauma, that they are not... Read more
Black Girl, Call Home
By: Jasmine Mans
Narrated by: Jasmine Mans
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Refinery 29 • She Reads • The Everygirl • Career Contessa
“You are carrying in your hands a Black woman’s heart.”—Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winner The Tradition
“[Mans’] lucid and lyrical lines are as undeniable as those of a... Read more
Make Me Rain
By: Nikki Giovanni
Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
An extraordinary listening experience! Hear Nikki Giovanni read from her newest collection of poems!One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s... Read more
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The Death of Sitting Bear
By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition.
“The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry is the highest form of verbal expression. Although I have... Read more
Homie
By: Danez Smith
Narrated by: Danez Smith
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Danez Smith is our president
Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in... Read more
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
“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub
This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and artistic contribution to the ongoing... 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 Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
“Shire is the real thing—fresh, cutting, indisputably... 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
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Space 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 “. . . and it asks... Read more
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Pillow 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
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Fierce 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
“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
“Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.”—Elle
“[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.”—The New Yorker
NAMED ONE OF... Read more
May You Love and Be Loved
By: Cleo Wade
Narrated by: Cleo Wade
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
May You Love and Be Loved features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the ocean while being immersed in this beautiful poem. It is the tender and joyous audiobook from New York Times–bestselling author and poet Cleo Wade.
May you know fear but not be driven by it
May you know joy... 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 who’s processing the war as he works on Claire’s family... Read more
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The 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; through her writing for Beyoncé 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 bodies―bodies 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 People’s 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
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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
Self-Portrait
By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive
Jack Kerouac's archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and
catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich
stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped,... Read more
The Unboxing of a Black Girl
By: Angela Shante
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection
on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning author Angela Shanté, is a love letter to Black girls set
in New York City and serves as a personal and political critique of how the world raises Black girls.
As Shanté navigates... Read more
Hojoki: A Buddhist Reflection on Solitude
By: Kamo no Chomei
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the tranquil wisdom of Chomei's 13th-century masterpiece, Hojoki, as it unveils the beauty of imperfection and the serenity of a simple life amidst the chaos of existence.
Hojoki is an introspective poem written in the 13th century by the enigmatic Japanese hermit Kamo no Chomei, who as a young man served in the capital as official court... Read more
little astronaut
By: J. Hope Stein
Narrated by: J. Hope Stein
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A poetry collection about the beautiful and disorienting period of new motherhood, exploring an experience both otherworldly and very, very human.
little astronaut is a fully revised and updated edition of the limited-release poetry collection by critically acclaimed poet J. Hope Stein. Featuring over 50 pages of new poems this book brings to... Read more
The Popol Vuh
By: Michael Bazzett
Narrated by: Michael Bazzett
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018
A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATIONIn the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a... Read more