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The Rupture Tense
By: Jenny Xie
Narrated by: Jenny Xie
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory... Read more
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Spoken Word
By: Joshua Bennett
Narrated by: Joshua Bennett
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion
“Bennett…transport[s] us back to the city blocks, bars, cafes and stages these artists... Read more
Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.
Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.... Read more
Havamal
By: Olive Bray
Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook features a special tribal ambient version of the full text in addition to the raw narration.These are the words of Odin the High One. Hávamál is presented as a single poem in the Icelandic Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic,... Read more
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Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
Narrated by: torrin a. greathouse
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in PoetryA CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in PoetryA Bustle Best Book of 2020A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the... Read more
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Worldly Things
By: Michael Kleber-Diggs
Narrated by: Michael Kleber-Diggs
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection
A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021"
A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021
A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection
A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection
“Sometimes,” writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes... Read more
Bad Hobby
By: Kathy Fagan
Narrated by: Kathy Fagan
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a “fatal diagnosis,” how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body “meant to bend & breed” opts not to, then finds itself performing the... Read more
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The Milk Hours
By: John James
Narrated by: John James
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss.“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of... Read more
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Human Resources
By: Ryann Stevenson
Narrated by: Ryann Stevenson
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Ryann Stevenson’s Human Resources is a sobering and perceptive portrait of technology’s impact on connection and power.Human Resources follows a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don’t exist. In discerning verse, she workshops the facial characteristics of a floating head... Read more
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North American Stadiums
By: Grady Chambers
Narrated by: Grady Chambers
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.“You were supposed to find God here / the signs said.” In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry... Read more
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Joseph von Eichendorff: Die Hörbuch Box
By: Joseph von Eichendorff
Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Joseph von Eichendorff gilt als DER Erzähler der Romantik. In diesem Hörbuch vereint sind die Erzählungen: Das Marmorbild, Das Schloss Dürande, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts sowie ausgewählte Gedichte. Read more
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The Castle of Indolence
By: James Thomson
Narrated by: Denis Daly
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The Castle of Indolence was published early in the summer of 1748, four months after the poet’s death. The work was a slow and leisurely composition, which took nearly fifteen years to complete.The poem consists of 158 stanzas, divided into two cantos. It is presented as an allegory and was professedly written in imitation of The Faerie... Read more
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Wires that Sputter
By: Britta Badour
Narrated by: Britta Badour
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful debut collection from an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet.
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Shortlist
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Shortlist
Raymond Souster Award, Longlist
With propulsive, intimate stylings and an eye toward Black liberations, pop culture, sports, and familial fractures, Wires that Sputter meets the world with... Read more
Remember
By: Joy Harjo
Narrated by: Joy Harjo
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s iconic poem "Remember" invites young listeners to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, and to remember the importance of their place in it.
Remember the sky you were born under,
Know each of the star's stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.
Remember the sun's birth at dawn,
That is the strongest... Read more
Girl Made of Glass
By: Shelby Leigh
Narrated by: Shelby Leigh
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
If you think often about the past or battle with overthinking and self-esteem, girl made of glass is for you. This collection is about finding yourself, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself. It explores the many ways our past haunts us but will leave you feeling hopeful about your future.
girl made of glass is a poetry collection about how... Read more
The Big Smoke
By: Adrian Matejka
Narrated by: Adrian Matejka
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the National Book Award in Poetry—a collection that examines the myth and history of the prizefighter Jack Johnson
The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he... Read more
Tous les monstres naissent égaux
By: Marie-Pier Labrecque
Narrated by: Marie-Pier Labrecque
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Elle endure le mal dans son corps de femme, celui qui vient de la lignée des hommes. Elle se baptise « natural born fucker , natural born killer , une chienne comme les chiens ». Elle frappe là où on l’attend le moins. Mais l’inattendu survient : elle porte en elle un enfant. Comment alors retrouver sa place, ses actes, son sexe ? « J’existerai... Read more
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In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
By: Melvyn Bragg
Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg & Various
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers
'An ever-growing library of wisdom' The Economist
Since 1998, In Our Time has been the go-to radio programme for knowledge seekers and inquiring minds. Tackling big topics with a light touch, it has introduced... Read more
The Songs of Kabir
By: Rabindranath Tagore
Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook is narrated in a calm meditative manner that fits the subject matter of these poems.Songs of Kabir is a book from 1915 consisting of 100 poems of Kabir, the 15th century Indian poet and mystic, translated to English by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.A weaver by trade and a mystic by nature, the 15th century poet Kabir created... Read more
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Three Sisters Ponds
By: Phillip Reid
Narrated by: Claude Xavier
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In September 2000, I was sitting on a bench facing the Mediterranean Sea in the French Riviera town of Nice. I had flown there during a three-day break in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial in Camp Ziest, Netherlands, where I was expected to testify. As I sat on this bench eating lunch, I suddenly found myself overwhelmed by emotion. It was an... Read more
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La Divina Commedia
By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: Gianluca Cellai, Simone Gambini, Chiara Brittan...
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
La realizzazione dell'interpretazione dei versi dell'Inferno di Dante Alighieri è nata grazie alla passione per la Letteratura Italiana da parte di vari attori che hanno fatto da corollario, facendosi corpo, voce, riso, pianto e preghiera di tutti i personaggi della Divina Commedia. Nasce così un vero e proprio viaggio sensoriale tramite le... Read more
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God Themselves
By: Jae Nichelle
Narrated by: Jae Nichelle
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space.
Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous thoughts in God Themselves, a new collection of stirring poetry. Nichelle taps into her experiences of growing up in the South as a queer Black woman to... Read more
Side Notes from the Archivist
By: Anastacia-Renee
Narrated by: Anastacia-Renee
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image—a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the expansiveness of Black femme lives.Voted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public... Read more
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Gaia Rise Of The Goddess
By: Justin Wesenberg
Narrated by: Justin Wesenberg
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Gaia Rise Of The Goddess is a poetry book about claiming your inner goddess and stepping into your truth!
This inspirational poetry book is for those who are ready to step fully into themselves and their radiant feminine energy...
Gaia is a poetry book about claiming your inner goddess! This book is for those who are ready to step fully into... Read more