Skip content
Give audiobooks, support local bookstores! Start gifting
National Poetry Month
All playlists

National Poetry Month

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

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

Poems

By: torrin a. greathouse
Narrated by: torrin a. greathouse
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in PoetryA CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetryโ€œSome girls are not made,โ€ torrin a. greathouse writes, โ€œbut spring from the dirt.โ€ Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Woundโ€”selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetryโ€”challenges a... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

Seedbank

By: Mikeas Sรกnchez
Narrated by: Mikeas Sรกnchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

“Translated in English, Spanish, and Sanchez's native language Zoque, the poet creates a powerful, border-crossing work. She weaves tales from her childhood and experiences as an indigenous woman in our modern society into beautiful and striking poetry. An incredible listening experience! Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Besaydoo

Poems

Jake Adam York Prize

By: Yalie Saweda Kamara
Narrated by: Yalie Saweda Kamara
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamaraโ€™s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to homeโ€”as place, as people, as body, and as language.A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with โ€œa story pulsing in every blood cell.โ€ In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account
Illustration of person sitting

Shop small, give big!

With credit bundles, you choose the number of credits and your recipient picks their audiobooks—all in support of local bookstores.

Start gifting

Extra Nos

Discovering Grace Outside Myself

By: FLAME
Narrated by: FLAME
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

GRAMMYยฎ-nominated and Stellar Award-winning hip-hop artist FLAME invites you to step up to his mic as he takes you through his life, from the streets of Saint Louis, Missouri, as a young man in youth group to a renowned Christian rapper on the red carpet. Read how God continually pushed FLAME in his faith journey, striving to find the path... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

Poems

By: Joy Harjo
Narrated by: Joy Harjo
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United StatesIn these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart

A Poetic Love Song

By: Dedan Gills & Belvie Rooks
Narrated by: Belvie Rooks & Danny Glover
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

The story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is โ€œas old as eternity and new as now.โ€ Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love. Dedan (1945โ€“2015) was a lifelong social justice and human rights... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Build Yourself a Boat

By: Camonghne Felix
Narrated by: Camonghne Felix
Length: 1 hour

This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory. Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Billy-Ray Belcourtโ€™s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is โ€œa prayer against breaking,โ€ writes trans Anishinaabe and Mรฉtis poet Gwen Benaway. โ€œBy way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran
Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Kate Reading
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

โ€œWork is love made visible.โ€ - Khalil GibranFilled with wisdom, written in simple, poetic language, The Prophet is a book for all ages, which remains amazingly relevant to our times. This audiobook, narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, contains two full versions of The Prophet: Part One, with music by Stefan Frankenberger. Part Two, with... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

A Little History of Poetry

The Little Histories Series

By: John Carey
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literatureWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always workโ€”over the... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Pink Mist

By: Owen Sheers
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard, Robert K. Benson, Andrew Fallaize, Marisa Calin, Elizabeth Jasicki, Gemma Dawson, Graeme Malcolm & various narrators
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat.In early 2008, three young friends from Bristol decide to join the army and are deployed to the conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time the three men... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Stranger Music

Selected Poems and Songs

By: Leonard Cohen
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

With the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohenโ€”already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelistโ€”was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminent singerโ€“songwriters of the time. Over the years, and through the release of more than a dozen studio albums,... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Book of Mercy

By: Leonard Cohen
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now available on audio for the first time, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Spoon River Anthology - Abridged

By: Edgar Lee Masters
Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than eighty never-before-published poems.Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account
Phone showing make the switch message

Limited-time offer

Get two free audiobooks!

Nowโ€™s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, weโ€™ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.

Sign up today

Wildly into the Dark

Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind

By: Tyler Knott Gregson
Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

The most intimate and eclectic poetry collection yet from bestselling author and online sensation Tyler Knott GregsonWith loyal fans around the world and across the internet, Tyler Knott Gregson is reinventing poetry for a new generation, using Instagram and Tumblr to reach readers where they are. Tylerโ€™s third collection includes more of his... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

The Poetic Edda

Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

By: Jackson Crawford
Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

โ€œThe poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lionโ€™s share of... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen

By: Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes & Georgia Douglas Johnson
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Ron Butler & Robin Miles
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth: The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes, The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Copper Sun by Countee Cullen,... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Couplets

A Love Story

By: Maggie Millner
Narrated by: Maggie Millner
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

“A beautiful story of self-discovery and new love, told in rhyme. Maggie Millner performs this short audiobook with a spare, confessional, and self-questioning style that gives shape to the transformation of her self-identity. Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Classical Poetry of Japan

By: Basil Hall Chamberlain
Narrated by: Denis Daly & Sarah Bacaller
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

This collection of Japanese poetry was compiled and translated into English from an anthology known as The Collection of Myriad Leaves, and from a number of other anthologies made by imperial decree between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. This period has come to be considered the golden age of Japanese literature.In those days, the... Read more

Audiobook details   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account
Give audiobooks, support local bookstores! Start gifting