Poetry

At Blackwater Pond

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No

Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems,... Read More »

Many Miles

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No

Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second audio reccording from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four new, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry—from her classic nature writing to her verses for her... Read More »

Paradise Lost

By: John Milton
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of Man with his expulsion from Eden. It is a tale of immense drama and excitement, of innocence pitted against corruption, of rebellion and treachery, in which God and Satan fight a... Read More »

The Classic Hundred Poems - Abridged

By: Various & William Harmon
Narrated by: Ensemble Cast
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes

An anthology every poetry lover should have: 100 carefully selected and beautifully read poems. Read More »

Milk and Honey

By: Rupi Kaur
Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No

Now on audio! Rupi Kaur reads milk and honey, her New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose about survival, the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey... Read More »

John Donne

By: John Donne
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Although the poet John Donne lived so long ago, some phrases from his writing still linger with us today, such as “no man is an island,” “death be not proud,” and “for whom the bell tolls,” which provided the title for one of Ernest Hemingway’s novels.

John Donne used poems as a means of metaphysical inquiry and meditation as well as for very... Read More »

The Death of King Arthur

By: Simon Armitage
Narrated by: Bill Wallis
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, or The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes this magisterial new presentation of the Arthurian tale,... Read More »

The Aeneid

By: Virgil & W. F. Jackson Knight
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 14 hours
Abridged: No

This enduring masterpiece tells of the epic quest of Aenas, who flees the ashes of Troy to found a new civilization: Rome. A unique hero, Aenas struggles and fights not for personal gain but for a civilization that will exist in the far future. Caught between passion and fate, his vision would change the course of the Western world.

Virgil,... Read More »

Metamorphoses

By: Ovid & Frank Justus Miller
Narrated by: Barry Kraft
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification... Read More »

The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle, Thomas Okey & Philip H. Wicksteed
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this classic masterpiece, originally published in 1320, read by award-winning narrator Ralph Cosham.

No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and of artistry. Dante’s theme is universal; it involves the greatest concepts that man has ever attained. Only a genius could... Read More »

William Blake

By: William Blake
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” —from “Auguries of Innocence”

At the end of his life, William Blake gave up hope of being widely understood, but the twentieth century brought his work a new and intense interest and acclaim. A poet, artist, and... 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 a... Read More »

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 »

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 »

Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome

By: Deepak Chopra, Kabir Sehgal & Paul Avgerinos
Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

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 a diverse group of immigrants who have made significant contributions to the United States. From Yo-Yo Ma to... Read More »

Heart Talk

By: Cleo Wade
Narrated by: Cleo Wade
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No

A beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade—the artist, poet, and speaker who has been called “the Millennial Oprah” by New York magazine—that offers creative inspiration and life lessons through poetry, mantras, and affirmations, perfect for fans of the bestseller Milk & Honey.

True to her hugely popular Instagram account, Cleo Wade brings... Read More »

Beowulf - Abridged

By: Seamus Heaney
Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Bestseller and Whitbread Book of the Year.

Heaney’s performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.

Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes... Read More »

Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico
Narrated by: Tommy Pico
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a... Read More »

Inquire Within

By: In-Q
Narrated by: In-Q
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

In this powerful and innovative book of poetry and wisdom, award-winning spoken-word poet, songwriter, and performer IN-Q inspires us to question everything we know and see around us and inside us, to discover what matters most.

"Poetry celebrates vulnerability as a strength rather than a weakness. It is a timeless form of storytelling that... 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 »

A Cruelty Special to Our Species

By: Emily Jungmin Yoon
Narrated by: Emily Jungmin Yoon
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No

A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talent.

In her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called “comfort women,” women who were forced into sexual labor... Read More »

Najwa Zebian: The Collected Poems

By: Najwa Zebian
Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

Najwa Zebian: The Collected Poems is an audio collection of Zebian's bestselling poetry, including the full text of Mind Platter, The Nectar of Pain, and Sparks of Phoenix. This bundled audiobook allows readers to access all of Zebian’s moving work in one place, in the author’s own voice. Read More »

Pale Colors in a Tall Field

By: Carl Phillips
Narrated by: Carl Phillips
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.

Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know... Read More »

1919

By: Eve L. Ewing
Narrated by: Eve L. Ewing
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries—through poems recounting the... Read More »