Trace Evidence
By: Charif Shanahan
Narrated by: Charif Shanahan
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Chicago Book of 2023
"A truly magical achievement." —Ocean Vuong
In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and... Read more
Perspective
By: Etrec White
Narrated by: Jason C. Johnson Sr.
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In Etrec White’s narrative poetry book, Perspective highlights the quest of two brothers.
After losing their parents at a young age, the brothers believe they’re finally living the good life when they discover a shocking truth surrounding their parents’ death. Motivated by a desire to avenge mom and dad, while having the support of their... Read more
The Adventures of Prissy and Missy
By: Karen Elise Wormack
Narrated by: Karen Elise Wormack
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
You're invited to take a wonderful journey with two of the sweetest sisters you may ever meet. Prissy and Missy are multi-cultural feline twins whose hearts and lives are filled with love, well being, curiosity, education and day to day adventurous experiences.
In this story, The Adventures of Prissy and Missy™ “Travel Abroad”, the second edition... Read more
The Adventures of Prissy and Missy
By: Karen Elise Wormack
Narrated by: Karen Elise Wormack
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
You’re invited to take a fantastic journey to the mysterious planet Mars with two of the sweetest sisters you may ever meet. Prissy and Missy are multicultural feline twins whose hearts and lives are consistently filled with love, curiosity, humor, well being, education and unforgettable day to day adventurous experiences.
In this powerfully... Read more
Wherever We Mean to Be
By: Robyn Sarah
Narrated by: Robyn Sarah
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Spanning forty years and ten previously published collections, Wherever We Mean to Be is the first substantial selection of Robyn Sarah’s poems since 1992. Chosen by the author, the 97 poems in this new volume highlight the versatility of a poet who moves easily between free verse, traditional forms, and prose poems. Familiar favorites are... Read more
View audiobookThe Adventures of Prissy and Missy
By: Karen Elise Wormack
Narrated by: Karen Elise Wormack
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
You're invited to take a wonderful journey with two of the sweetest sisters you may ever meet. Prissy and Missy are multi-cultural feline twins whose hearts and lives are filled with love, forgiveness, curiosity, education and day to day adventurous experiences. In this story, The Adventures of Prissy and Missy (tm)"Sleepwalk Affair," you'll... Read more
View audiobookHarbour Grids
By: Zane Koss
Narrated by: Zane Koss
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Harbour Grids is a long poem in four parts that investigates ideas of community and belonging. Beginning as a meditation on the surface of New York Harbor, the poem radiates outward through issues of labour, location, history, belonging, and subjectivity. How do we experience our complex relations to the world we live in? Harbour Grids seeks... Read more
View audiobookPerdón a la lluvia
By: Sara Búho
Narrated by: Sara Búho
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Perdón a la lluvia es un conjunto de tormentas que no supimos navegar. Un viaje por todos los naufragios, por todo lo mal entendido. Una vuelta al dolor en brazos de la nostalgia. Un intento de convertir los recuerdos en alas, y que dejen de ser cadenas. Un paso atrás para recuperar lo que es valioso y quedó perdido en la huida, y también para... Read more
View audiobookFragilidades
By: Sara Búho
Narrated by: Sara Búho
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
La belleza reside en todo aquello que no es intocable. La fragilidad florece en los momentos de mayor incertidumbre, pero es algo de lo que no nos podemos desprender. En este poemario la esencia de lo frágil despierta para hacernos ver que está presente en todos nosotros y que podemos valorarla como algo hermoso. A través de unos versos... Read more
View audiobookLa Divina Comedia
By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: Rodrigo Martinez
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
La Divina Comedia es un poema épico escrito por el poeta italiano Dante Alighieri en el siglo XIV. La obra se divide en tres partes: Infierno, Purgatorio y Paraíso. En Infierno, Dante describe su descenso a través de los nueve círculos del infierno, donde se encuentran las almas de los pecadores que han cometido diversos crímenes. Cada... Read more
View audiobookWho Killed Jerusalem?
By: George Albert Brown
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 19 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on?
With a tour-de-force narration by the multi-award-winning Patrick Lawlor, who uses his uncompromising talent to bring every character to life with an astonishing vocal range.
“A BIG, JOYOUS BOOK, WORTH READING
SIMPLY FOR THE FUN OF IT.”—BLUE INK REVIEW
“A... Read more
Minor Notes, Volume 1
By: Joshua Bennett & Jesse McCarthy
Narrated by: Joshua Bennett, Jesse McCarthy, Tracy K. Smith ...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith
A Penguin Classic
Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across... Read more
This is not a poem
By: L. A. Cunningham
Narrated by: A. D. Milne
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This is not a poem.It's barely even a book.It's one page making fun of poems that aren't poems.And now it’s a 42-second audiobook too! Perfect for those long road trips and the busy individual with no time to sit down with a book. Read more
View audiobookFour in Hand
By: Alicia Mountain
Narrated by: Alicia Mountain
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language and white space equally captivate with their sparsity and abundance as Mountain pursues the... Read more
View audiobookStaying Right Here
By: Usman Hameedi
Narrated by: Usman Hameedi
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Usman Hameedi’s debut collection, Staying Right Here, is a journey in finding home. Hameedi invites readers to bear witness to vignettes of joy and hardship as he navigates finding his place in America. From an ode to Bodegas, an autobiography of his eyebrows, and elegies for lost friends, Hameedi’s thematic metaphors for family, wellness, and... Read more
View audiobookHold What Makes You Whole: Poems
By: Marcus Amaker
Narrated by: Marcus Amaker
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the audio version of Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker's tenth book, Hold What Makes You Whole. It is read by the author with original music sprinkled in the reading.~PRAISE.Hold What Makes You Whole is a gratifying meditative collection of poems accompanied by kaleidoscopic visual imagery that pulls you in, settles your mind, and makes way... Read more
View audiobookMessages For Love
By: Bethany Dalton
Narrated by: Alex Kashevaroff
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Destined to become an heirloom treasure: A wisdom guide and heartfelt journey into the truth of love in poems, statements and stories which open the heart. There is guidance, inspiration, encouragement, truth, wisdom, warnings, beautiful writing, profound messages, and in depth understanding here. Read more
View audiobookNo Sweet Without Brine
By: Cynthia Manick
Narrated by: Cynthia Manick
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a soulful and celebratory collection that summons sticky sweet memories with an acrid aftertaste of deep thought. Satisfying moments are captured in odes to Idris... Read more
View audiobookFlickering
By: Pattiann Rogers
Narrated by: Pattiann Rogers & John A. Rogers
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“[Rogers’] poems bring an openness of spirit and an almost scientific curiosity to the world at her feet, cataloging unexpected connections everywhere she looks.” —New York Times Book Review
A new collection from a poet whose “celebrations of science and approachable yet profound spiritual connection to the Earth delight, entertain, and... Read more
The Songsculptor Method
By: Richard Melvin Brown
Narrated by: Richard Melvin Brown
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
THE SONGSCULPTOR METHOD (How to write a GREAT commercial song) by Award Winning Songwriter Richard Melvin Brown includes musical-Clips and Examples pertaining to the subject matter. To actually hear what we are talking about in the (Musical-Clips and Examples) is a huge advantage in understanding the overall concepts in the art and craft of... Read more
View audiobookDrive
By: Elaine Sexton
Narrated by: Elaine Sexton
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Poems exploring our most fragile points of connection to lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one's own life's work--with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads.
'Silently / pulling for itself, / the will wants the body to // give it what it wants,' Sexton writes in 'Between the Car and the Sea,' at once a... Read more
Useful Junk
By: Erika Meitner
Narrated by: Erika Meitner
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems.In her previous five collections of poetry, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of America’s most incisive observers, cherished for her remarkable ability to temper catastrophe with tenderness. In her newest... Read more
View audiobookHacia tierras lejanas
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Cesc Martínez
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Llega a la colección «Poesía portátil» una selección de los mejores versos de R.L. Stevenson. El anhelo por los paisajes lejanos y la nostalgia por la infancia sobrevuela estos poemas del autor de La isla del tesoro. El padre de La isla del tesoro solo llegó a publicar dos libros de poemas en vida, pero dejó muchos inéditos. Hacia tierras... Read more
View audiobookConference Of The Birds
By: Farid ud-Din Attar
Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur'an, 27:16, where Sulayman and Dāwūd are said to have been taught the language, or speech, of the birds.In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to... Read more
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