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Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne
Now We Are Six
A. A. Milne
Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne

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
Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana Headley
Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

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

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Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni
Make Me Rain
Nikki Giovanni
Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni

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
Observations of Life in Verse
Violet Harrington
Observations of Life in Verse by Violet Harrington

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
The Odyssey
Homer
The Odyssey by Homer

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
The Totally Not Boring Book of Feelings
Jolie Taylor & Brandon Dorman
The Totally Not Boring Book of Feelings by Jolie Taylor & Brandon Dorman

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
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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
Daughters of Latin America
Sandra Guzman
Daughters of Latin America by Sandra Guzman

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
44 Poems on Being with Each Other
Pádraig Ó Tuama
44 Poems on Being with Each Other by Pádraig Ó Tuama

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

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Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood
Life of the Party
Olivia Gatwood
Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood

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

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Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Felon
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts

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

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The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan
The Moon That Turns You Back
Hala Alyan
The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan

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
The Iliad
Homer
The Iliad by Homer

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

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Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy, 1993
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola

Helen of Troy, 1993

By: Maria Zoccola

Narrated by: Maria Zoccola

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Book Review EditorsChoice 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

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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

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

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
Franny Choi
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

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
The Hurting Kind
Ada Limón
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

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
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems
Mikeas Sánchez
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by Mikeas Sánchez

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
A Fortune For Your Disaster
Hanif Abdurraqib
A Fortune For Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

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
Small Cures
Della Hicks-Wilson
Small Cures by Della Hicks-Wilson

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

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The Death of Sitting Bear by N. Scott Momaday
The Death of Sitting Bear
N. Scott Momaday
The Death of Sitting Bear by N. Scott Momaday

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

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

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

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Couplets by Maggie Millner
Couplets
Maggie Millner
Couplets by Maggie Millner

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
Devotions
Mary Oliver
Devotions by Mary Oliver

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...
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