Poetry audiobooks

Camping Out with Honey

By: Gale Sypher Jacob

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Lively rhyming story about a family camping out with their dog. Read more

Spring Says

By: Monica Gudlewski

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Highlights presents Spring Says by Monica Gudlewski. A poem about winter transitioning into spring. Read more

My Favorite Season

By: Eileen Spinelli

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Highlights presents My Favorite Season by Eileen Spinelli. A poem about the signs that autumn is here. Read more

Five Little Penquins

By: Nicole Furfaro

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

A counting poem about five little penguins playing on a hill. Read more

I Can!

By: Donna Marie Marry

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This short verse describes a few actions that the speaker can do. Read more

Reading Together

By: Eileen Spinelli

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Highlights presents Reading Together by Eileen Spinelli. Rhyming story about having a look at baby's book. Read more

Where is Baby Bunny?

By: Eileen Spinelli

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Highlights presents Where is Baby Bunny? by Eileen Spinelli. Baby Bunny plays hide and seek. Read more

Absolution for the Kitchen Sink

By: Rod Rippel

Narrated by: Todd Ethridge

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of poetry and commentaries on life experiences and issues of the spirit movement of the latter half of the twentieth century that appear relevant in the emerging twenty-first. Topics include celebration of life transitions, reflections on lifestyle modes, insights into the religious dimension, the aging process, and... Read more

Wildly into the Dark

By: Tyler Knott Gregson

Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

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. Tyler’s third collection includes more of his... Read more

Near/Miss

By: Charles Bernstein

Narrated by: Charles Bernstein

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as “the foremost poet-critic of our time” by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American poetry. Near/Miss, Bernstein’s first poetry collection  in five years, is the apotheosis of his late style, thick with... Read more

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

By: Mary Lambert

Narrated by: Mary Lambert

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across is read by Mary Lambert and includes original music exclusive to the audiobook.

Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down—and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as... Read more

Let Us Compare Mythologies

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen’s first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Read more

i hear rustling

By: Anthony Marchese

Narrated by: Anthony Marchese

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An audio presentation of a hand bound book collection. Read more

Jabberwocky

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This poem describes a battle with a fearsome beast called “The Jabberwock” and is considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is included in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In an early scene in that... Read more

Sacarse La Flecha del Corazón

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Yara Liceaga-Rojas

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Alice Walker shares a timely volume... Read more

Ahora que ya bailas

By: Miguel Gane

Narrated by: Miguel Gane

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

El nuevo poemario del autor de Con tal de verte volar, Miguel Gane, ahora en formato audiolibro Naces, creces, amas, te rompen, aprendes y no mueres hasta que alguien deja de quererte. Estos poemas son la historia de Ella, la que fue callada porque sus gritos resonaban demasiado alto. Ella, que dejó de ser suya porque quien debía liberar su... Read more

Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults

By: Various

Narrated by: Joan Walker & Jonathan Keeble

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

THE PERFECT NIGHTTIME READ - DESIGNED TO CALM YOUR MIND FOR A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP

*Introduced by Lucy Mangan* Recommended by RED magazine *

'Dreamy' STYLIST
'Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep... the most beautiful book that will, without a doubt, put you in the mood for some ZZZZs.' THE SUN

Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime... Read more

Poemas desde mi ombligo

By: Yolanda Saenz de Tejada

Narrated by: Yolanda Saenz de Tejada

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Una secuencia lógica de emociones cotidianas a través de la poesía, del amor obsesivo al amor carnal, al odio y al amor otra vez Grabado en español ibérico (España). Read more

النبي

By: جبران خليل جبران

Narrated by: رنا الخطيب

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

يعدُّ كتاب النبي أشهر كتب جبران بلا منازع فقد تمَّت ترجمته إلى أكثر من خمسين لغة وانتشر عالميًا بسبب مضمونه الاجتماعي ولغته العذبة. يحتوي الكتاب على تأملات جبران وخلاصته الفكرية في الحبّ والزواج والأطفال وفلسفة التكاثر والبيوت والثياب والبيع والشراء كما يتحدَّث بتأملٍ عميق عن الحرية والقانون والعقاب والدّين والأخلاق والحياة والموت.. يقول جبران... Read more

Forever Words

By: Johnny Cash

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of never-before-published poems by Johnny Cash, edited and introduced by Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon with a foreword by John Carter Cash. Illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash’s own handwritten pages.Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash was an icon in the music world. In this collection of poems... Read more

Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

By: Christopher Reid

Narrated by: ROBERT BATHURST

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

I've rounded up a rowdy assembly
Of my own Consequential Dogs
As counterparts to Eliot's mogs.
Mine are a rough and ready bunch:
You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .
But if they strike you as friendly, funny,
Full of bounce and fond of a romp,
Forgetful of poetic pomp,
I trust you'll take them as you find them
And, at the very least, not mind... Read more

What We’re Teaching Our Sons

By: Owen Booth

Narrated by: Owen Booth

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We’re teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We’re teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what... Read more

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Alice Walker

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Flame

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Jim Fletcher, John Doe, Maggie Hof...

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Will Patton, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, and Neela Vaswani.

The Flame is the final collection of the seminal musician and poet, which he was determined to complete before his death.

Just weeks before his death in late 2016,... Read more