Poetry audiobooks


Now We Are Six
By: A. A. Milne
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
This second collection of poems from A. A. Milne includes works such as Furry Bear, Sneezles, and Buttercup Days as well as an appearance by the beloved children's character Winnie-the-Pooh. With gentle humor and whimsical lines, Now We Are Six is perfect for anyone—whether you're six or sixty-six. Read more
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Beowulf: A New Translation
By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A new,... 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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Observations of Life in Verse
By: Violet Harrington
Narrated by: Violet Harrington
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Allow yourself to be inspired by Violet Harrington's enjoyable poetry which springs from a wealth of lived experiences read by this extraordinary person herself.In this special audio version, Violet reads these poems herself at almost a 100 years of age and life experience with her unmistakable and charming East End accent. This makes this... Read more
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The Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... Read more
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The Totally Not Boring Book of Feelings
By: Jolie Taylor & Brandon Dorman
Narrated by: Jolie Taylor
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
40 fun poems that explore big feelings and emotions. This whimsical journey through verse and illustrations can help children recognize and understand their big emotions. From the imaginative minds of Brandon Dorman, renowned illustrator of Goosebumps, Land of Stories, and Fablehaven, and Booktok creator Jolie Taylor comes a whimsical... Read more
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Milk and Honey
By: Rupi Kaur
Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Rupi Kaur presents an all-new performance of milk and honey, her #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose about survival, the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This new production was recorded in 2021 along with the first-ever recordings of her #1 bestsellers the sun and her flowers and home body, all... Read more
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Daughters of Latin America
By: Sandra Guzman
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & Maria Victoria Martinez
Length: 18 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña—gathered in one magnificent volume.Daughters of Latin America... Read more
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems curated by Pádraig Ó Tuama, the host of On Being's Poetry Unbound podcast.
44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem,... Read more


Life of the Party
By: Olivia Gatwood
Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalized world, from a thrilling new feminist voice.
i’m a good girl, bad girl, dream girl, sad girl
girl next door sunbathing in the driveway
i wanna be them all at once, i wanna be
all the girls I’ve ever loved
—from “Girl”
Lauded for the power of her... Read more


Felon
By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Narrated by: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).
Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems― canvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace― and, in doing so,... Read more


The Moon That Turns You Back
By: Hala Alyan
Narrated by: Hala Alyan
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war. A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one... Read more
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The Iliad
By: Homer
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the renowned translator of Rilke, Tao Te Ching, and Gilgamesh, a vivid new translation of Western civilization’s foundational epic: The Iliad.
Tolstoy called the Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or... Read more


Helen of Troy, 1993
By: Maria Zoccola
Narrated by: Maria Zoccola
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick*
“By turns hilarious and provocative, it’s an affecting character study and modern mythic retelling.” —Publishers Weekly, Books That Should Be on Your Radar in 2025
Part myth retelling, part character study, this sharp, visceral debut poetry collection reimagines Helen of Troy from Homer’s... Read more


Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among... Read more


The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
Narrated by: Franny Choi
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending,... Read more
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The Hurting Kind
By: Ada Limón
Narrated by: Ada Limón
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it... Read more
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How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems
By: Mikeas Sánchez
Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism... Read more
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A Fortune For Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that... Read more
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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


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


Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that... Read more


Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
Narrated by: Maggie Millner
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone.A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are... Read more
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Devotions
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
“I love [Mary's] work. It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human. . . . I find her poetry to be so cathartic... Read more