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Why Fathers Cry at Night
By: Kwame Alexander
Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In a powerfully intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man... Read more
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The End of the Beginning
By: Carrie Voigt Schonhoff
Narrated by: Carrie Voigt Schonhoff
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Carrie Voigt Schonhoff, poet and author of The Liminal Space, has released her second published book of poems, The End of the Beginning. Schonhoff once again captures the spirit of her native Wisconsin while encapsulating the growth of her life’s journey and exciting next chapter. This work will resonate deeply with readers from the Midwest and... Read more
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Art is Life and Life is Gritty
By: Karif Battle
Narrated by: Karif Battle
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From the dark and light side of my moon, I bring you tales of the ineffable. And some mo stuff. Read more
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Don Juan (sin abreviar)
By: Lord Byron
Narrated by: Luis Eslava
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
¡Sumérgete en la épica y apasionante historia de "Don Juan" de Lord Byron, ahora en una cautivadora versión en audiolibro en español! Nuestra excepcional narración te transportará a través de las brillantes y sensuales estrofas de este clásico literario.
Cada palabra y cada verso de "Don Juan" se han preservado en su totalidad, ofreciéndote una... Read more
The Raven
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Robin Reads
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Edgar Allan Poe's peerless narrative poem about a forlorn lover who is visited by a mysterious raven.First published in 1845. Narrated by Robin Reads. Read more
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I Made These Ants Some Underpants
By: Derick Wilder
Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
What’s a kid to do when given a day-of-the-week underwear set—wear Monday’s undies on Monday and Tuesday’s undies on Tuesday, like a rule-following robot?No sirree bob! He’ll cut and craft, snip and sew until every single one of his friends has their own pair of underwear—whether they want them or not …One boy’s valiant attempt to create a pair... Read more
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Please make me pretty, I don't want to die
By: Tawanda Mulalu
Narrated by: Tawanda Mulalu
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness... Read more
Poetry as Spellcasting
By: Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill & Lisbeth White
Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Poems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being--Queer & BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power.
For poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, Poetry as Spellcasting positions poetry as a vehicle for healing-justice transformation.
It asks: If ritualized violence... Read more
Nearer My Freedom
By: Monica Edinger & Lesley Younge
Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou & Clifford Samuel
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as a primary source text, authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge... Read more
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ballast
By: Quenton Baker
Narrated by: Quenton Baker
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.
In 1841, the only successful, large-scale revolt of American-born enslaved people erupted on the ship Creole. 135 people escaped chattel slavery that day. The event was recounted in US... Read more
Technelegy
By: Sasha Stiles
Narrated by: Sasha Stiles
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
What does it mean to be human in a nearly posthuman era? How are universal truths like birth, sex and death changing in the context of technological innovation? These are the questions probed by poet, artist and AI researcher Sasha Stiles in her highly anticipated debut. Both groundbreaking and heartbreaking, the collection explores our intimate... Read more
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Gothic Poems
By: Rachel Lawson
Narrated by: Rachel Lawson
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The Ravens
A flock of ravens floats upon the air over their prey,Like a looming black storm cloud of gloom,In the later hours of the death of the day,They fight each other for room,In the melee, one is injured it falls,Blood and gore fill the air,The air is filled with their dire calls,Little did the observers of this carnage care,To them, it was... Read more
Home
By: Whitney Hanson
Narrated by: Whitney Hanson
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems
"the bees aren’t going to go away
but they are going to change with you
sometimes they will be chaotic
sometimes they will rest
sometimes they will give you sweet honey
and sometimes they will remind you
of how... Read more
Amor revolución
By: Redry - David Galán
Narrated by: Redry - David Galán
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Pequeñas dosis de emociones para abrazarte cada día. Todos los días podemos encontrar un poco de magia dentro de nuestra vida rutinaria, encontrar una pizca de amor, una señal que nos haga pensar en lo que nos pasa sin darnos cuenta. Este diario de píldoras te recorrerá durante un año en una emoción constante donde abrazarte a esos momentos en... Read more
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Fever of Unknown Origin
By: Campbell McGrath
Narrated by: Campbell McGrath
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of profound and piercing poems from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize about navigating the modern world in search of beauty that will endure
Fever of Unknown Origin opens at a remote crossroads, where the speaker considers the intersection of history, beauty, and destruction: “the past / is paper / and the present, a match . . .”... Read more
A Água Volta Como Memória
By: Silvino Ferreira Jr
Narrated by: Silvino Ferreira Jr
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Nos primeiros versos de A Água Volta Como Memória, Silvino Ferreira Jr convida o leitor a acompanhá-lo em uma viagem através da memória auditiva de uma água. Água cristalina, água da nascente. De volta à foz de um rio, ao mesmo tempo, real e imaginário, o poeta reencontra uma face e uma voz esquecidas e, como numa revelação, descobre que a foz... Read more
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Igloo Dwellers Were My Church
By: John R Sperry
Narrated by: Blair Stainton
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Anglican bishop John R. Sperry spent 20 years with the Inuit in a tiny and isolated Canadian Arctic community. ... Sperry travelled on his rounds by dogteam across the sea ice and snow-covered land, to visit Inuit camps… Read more
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Behind Closed Doors
By: Dr. Empress Rose Green
Narrated by: Eyette Rose Green
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The Behind Closed Doors lists eight (8) autobiographical impactful Short Stories summarized in the form of Poems. The Anthology includes excruciating innate circumstances such as my miracle birth, poverty, sexual assault, homelessness and cancer. The book boasts variations of Poems that are an Ode, Sonnet, Ballad, Haiku, Limerick, Villanelle,... Read more
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The Flowers of Evil
By: Frank Pearce Sturm & Charles Baudelaire
Narrated by: Denis Daly
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Baudelaire’s most famous collection of poems is The Flowers of Evil, which was published in 1857 and which was widely condemned as being unwholesome and decadent. The publication actually led to Baudelaire being prosecuted on a charge of offending public morals.There have been numerous translations of Baudelaire’s work into English, but many of... Read more
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Llamadme amparo
By: Niño de Elche
Narrated by: Niño de Elche
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
La resonancia de una honda voz de poeta. Una estrofa popular abre este poemario: «Llamadme amparo,/ el enfermo buscaba el alivio/ malito, y yo no lo hallo». A continuación, Niño de Elche empieza a hilvanar distintas estampas poéticas dedicadas a la idea del hogar, imagen que caldea la memoria y la imaginería de cada uno, lo que nos ampara contra... Read more
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Cutting Pieces in Darkness & Light
By: Renata Di Valentin
Narrated by: Renata Di Valentin
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of lyrical and thoughtful free verse poetry takes readers on a journey through life's thoughts and sentiments. Everything from the loss of a mother to the ache of heartbreak is given a moment on the page. Readers can feel the beat of the poetry’s pulse and lose themselves in a life other than their own, while still seeing... Read more
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Meditations in an Emergency
By: Frank O Hara
Narrated by: Aedemon Maure
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, “which, by its... Read more
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Floodmeadow
By: Toby Martinez de las Rivas
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel-framed gates sing out into the wind. In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on apocalypse, is characterised by collision and disintegration. Among fragments of memory... Read more
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Helen of Bikini
By: Phoebe Reeves
Narrated by: Phoebe Reeves
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Helen of Bikini examines the way humans inhabit the world, both in beauty and in conflict. How do the twinned human forces of domestication and domination, rage and mediation, witness and culpability, destruction and nurturing, find their balances, not in an either/or, but in a melding? In an unapologetically feminist approach to these topics,... Read more
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