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National Poetry Month

In celebration of National Poetry Month, check out this playlist of the best of our poetry audiobooks!

The Dark Between Stars

Poems

By: Atticus
Narrated by: Atticus
Length: 34 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.

Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma... Read more

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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

By: Alice Walker
Narrated by: Alice Walker
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel of permanent importance” (San Francisco Chronicle)—reads the English-language editions of the poems in her new bi-lingual collection, a collection that is both... Read more

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The Sun and Her Flowers

By: Rupi Kaur
Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Rupi Kaur performs the first-ever recording of the sun and her flowers, her second #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose. This production was recorded in 2021 along with the brand-new audio edition of milk and honey and the debut audio recording of home body.

Divided into five chapters, this volume is a journey through the... Read more

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Home Body

By: Rupi Kaur
Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Rupi Kaur performs the first-ever recording of home body, her third #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose. This production was performed and recorded in 2021 along with the brand-new audio edition of milk and honey and the first audio recording of her second collection, the sun and her flowers.

Kaur constantly embraces... Read more

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She Walks in Beauty

A Woman's Journey Through Poems

By: author
Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Jane Alexander, John Bedford Lloyd, Hope Davis & Campbell Scott
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

This power and moving work examines what it means to be a girl, a sister, a mother, a wife—a woman—and all the challenges and cheer it brings to life.

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating... Read more

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A Heartsongs Collection

By: Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Narrated by: Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Mattie J. T. Stepanek takes us on a journey with more the full collection of his moving poems.

These poems share the rare wisdom that Mattie acquired through his struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and the death of his three siblings from the same disease. His life view was one of love and generosity and as a poet and a peacemaker,... Read more

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Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

Poems

By: Kevin Powers
Narrated by: Kevin Powers
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.

National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life:... Read more

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From Song of Myself (A Poem from The Poets' Corner)

The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family

By: author
Narrated by: Mr. John Lithgow
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems.

The wide variety of carefully selected... Read more

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The Essential Edgar Allan Poe

With a biography by Roy McMillan

The Essential

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Released to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the author’s birth in January 1809, this selection of well-loved chilling tales from the master of the supernatural is a perfect Christmas gift. The short stories include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The... Read more

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The Great Poets – Rudyard Kipling

The Great Poets –

By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

This anthology contains many of Kipling’s most famous poems, If, Mandalay, Gunga Din. Though sometimes still regarded as a product of the colonial era, Kipling touches a very popular nerve in Britain’s literary tradition, and is regarded more generously now as a master of popular verse. It is often forgotten that he won the Nobel Prize for... Read more

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