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... Read more
SHOUT
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by... Read more
Bread and Circus
By: Airea D. Matthews
Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub
This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and artistic contribution to the ongoing... Read more
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
Narrated by: Warsan Shire
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
“Shire is the real thing—fresh, cutting, indisputably... Read more
Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times
By: Taisia Kitaiskaia
Narrated by: Zura Johnson
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Baba Yaga offers more off-kilter remedies for the modern dilemmas of an unstable age using her uncanny style, poetic simplicity, and surprising candor.
In this follow-up to Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, award-winning writer Taisia Kitaiskaia once again embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to... Read more
We Want Our Bodies Back
By: jessica Care moore
Narrated by: jessica Care moore
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both... Read more
View audiobookSpace 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
View audiobookPillow Thoughts
By: Courtney Peppernell
Narrated by: Courtney Peppernell
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions, read by the author herself. Read more
View audiobookFierce Fairytales
By: Nikita Gill
Narrated by: Nikita Gill
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.
Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory.
But in this... Read more
If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
“Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.”—Elle
“[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.”—The New Yorker
NAMED ONE OF... Read more
The Terrible
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward & Howard Daley-Ward
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award
“Devastating and lyrical.” —The New York Times
“Suspenseful and affecting.” —The New Yorker
From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding... Read more
Enemies in the Orchard
By: Dana VanderLugt
Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Elizabeth Klett & Rachel Leblang
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW who’s processing the war as he works on Claire’s family... Read more
View audiobookThe How
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become
Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always... Read more
Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Diaz
Narrated by: Natalie Diaz
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection
Postcolonial Love Poem, the brilliant second collection from Natalie Diaz, holds in its pages the urgent appeal for all bodies―bodies of... Read more
Everything Comes Next
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye & James Patrick Cronin
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Beloved and acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye is the current Young People’s Poet Laureate, serving until August 2021. This celebratory book collects in one volume her most popular and accessible poems from the past forty years. Featuring new, never-before-published poems, an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch, as well as a... Read more
View audiobookHome: Where Everyone Is Welcome
By: Deepak Chopra, Kabir Sehgal & Paul Avgerinos
Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Written and composed by immigrants and first generation Americans, Home provides a stronger sense of welcome and belonging for everyone.
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... Read more
A Heart Finally Open
By: Lamont Kellum Jr.
Narrated by: King Ccholo
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Lamont Kellum Jr. is a very profound and prolific writer. Taking his poetry and spoken word to new heights, he is now telling his story in his own cadence unapologetically. From having the artistical architecture in his writing of poetry, he decided to utilize his gifted craft with a story telling of his own after all these years of everyone... Read more
View audiobookOne Wild Word Away
By: Geffrey Davis
Narrated by: Geffrey Davis
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present. In One Wild Word Away, Geffrey Davis weaves a deft set of poems about illness, family, loss, and rebirth. The luxurious sonics and crisp descriptions in each line are haunted by grief and buoyed by love as the... Read more
View audiobookgay
By: Alberto Ramos
Narrated by: Alberto Ramos
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Llega a librerías el poemario que inspiró a una generación. En 2019, Alberto Ramos autopublicó un innovador libro llamado gay, con un diseño único con todas las páginas negras e ilustraciones trazadas en blanco que conquistó corazones y marcó tendencias, concebido y diseñado por su autor como una labor de amor en honor al arcoíris. gay es un... Read more
View audiobookwoke up no light
By: Leila Mottley
Narrated by: Leila Mottley
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California
woke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows... Read more
Good Grief
By: Brianna Pastor
Narrated by: Brianna Pastor
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
“Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favorite new writers. Good Grief is a powerful testament that shows how hard the past can be and that overcoming it is possible. If you want to feel seen and deeply moved, read Good Grief. Brianna Pastor has unparalleled talent, let the power of her writing guide you to a better life.”—yung pueblo, #1 New York... Read more
View audiobookRangikura
By: Tayi Tibble
Narrated by: Tayi Tibble
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A fiery second collection of poetry from the acclaimed Indigenous New Zealand writer that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo calls, “One of the most startling and original poets of her generation.”
Tayi Tibble returns on the heels of her incendiary debut with a bold new follow-up. Barbed and erotic, vulnerable and searching, Rangikura asks readers to... Read more
Instructions for Traveling West
By: Joy Sullivan
Narrated by: Joy Sullivan
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor our intuition, allowing ourselves to strike out for new territories of love, pleasure, and peace.
“This empathetic, honest, and intimate collection is chockful of poems reminding the reader to love earnestly, live freely, and pay attention.”—Kate... Read more
The Span of a Small Forever
By: April Gibson
Narrated by: April Gibson
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice.With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability that pierces the heart,... Read more
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