Poetry

I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World

By: Kendra DeColo
Narrated by: Kendra DeColo
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Punk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy Kendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as heroic, brutal, and hardcore. These poems interrogate patriarchal narratives about childbirth, postpartum healing, and motherhood through the lens of pop culture... Read more

If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep

By: Joe Wenderoth
Narrated by: Joe Wenderoth
Length: 50 minutes

Recorded live in Los AngelesWhether it's addressing the grotesque in daily scenes or upsetting the norms of professional culture, Joe Wenderoth's fifth collection, If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep, resonates with his signature intellect and disturbing humor. He is at once an aesthete and an iconoclast who brings inventive force to American... Read more

Soft Thorns: The Audiobook Collection

By: Bridgett Devoue
Narrated by: Bridgett Devoue
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

A spoken word poetry collection for dreamers who crave to explore the unknown, through one young woman’s exploration of her darkest times and her path towards healing.
Bridgett Devoue’s poetry takes the listener on a journey into the world of love, lust, heartbreak, abuse, and the lessons learned along the way. This collection combines the... Read more

Walkman

Penguin Poets

By: Michael Robbins
Narrated by: Tim Alexander
Length: 48 minutes

A new collection from an audacious, humorous poet celebrated for his "sky-blue originality of utterance" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)

Michael Robbins's first two books of poetry were raucous protests lodged from the frontage roads and big-box stores of off-ramp America. With Walkman, he turns a corner. These new poems confront self-pity... Read more

Vulnerable AF

By: Tarriona Ball
Narrated by: Tarriona Ball
Length: 41 minutes

Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook!

The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.
The real-life story of a relationship in the author's past told in verse and short prose pieces. Relatable and honest, with Tank's signature mix of whimsy... Read more

We Want Our Bodies Back

Poems

By: jessica Care moore
Narrated by: jessica Care moore
Length: 2 hours 1 minute

“Lyrical poems that will spark a lot of emotion, and maybe even a call to action. This little book is incredibly powerful! Makes for a great listen on Libro.fm as well. Read more

Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times

from Ask Baba Yaga

By: Taisia Kitaiskaia
Narrated by: Zura Johnson
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

“Timely, heartwarming, and brimming with tough love, this little volume is just what we all need. Zura Johnson’s narration is versatile and absolutely perfect. Read more

Dear Girl

By: Aija Mayrock
Narrated by: Aija Mayrock
Length: 44 minutes

“A book worth both listening to and buying in print. Loved being able to hear the poet read her own work as she speaks to girls of all ages about who they are and who they have the power to be. Read more

How a Poem Moves 

A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry

By: Adam Sol
Narrated by: Adam Sol & Soraya Peerbaye
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verseDeveloped from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging... Read more

Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

Deluxe Edition

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in... Read more

The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 59 minutes

Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes... Read more

Keep Moving

Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

By: Maggie Smith
Narrated by: Maggie Smith
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

“Maggie Smith hits the nail on the head with her stunning book of quotes and essays. This inspiring read gives you the validation to address your feelings and the permission to move forward with a new outlook. Much like a talk with a good friend, you feel heard and comforted. I devoured this treasure in one sitting and am starting a list of... Read more

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey
Narrated by: Lana Del Rey
Length: 38 minutes

The New York Times bestselling debut book of poetry from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.

“Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each... Read more

The Death of Sitting Bear

New and Selected Poems

By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

“From Pulitzer Prize-winning author (House Made of Dawn in 1969), Oklahoma Centennial State Poet Laureate, and acclaimed artist N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) comes a new collection of more than 100 new and selected poems in The Death of Sitting Bear. Presented in three parts, some poems are quick tributes to natural phenomenon but made no less... Read more

If They Come for Us

Poems

By: Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

“Raw, but not unpolished. Dripping with sadness and honey. Rage beyond anger, a lesson in history and violence. A comprehensible example of otherness in America for those who haven’t experienced it; for those who don’t know they’re perpetuating it. An honest portrayal of a life shaped by governments’ omissions, of the lies of the self and others,... Read more

How Far You Have Come

Musings on Beauty and Courage

Morgan Harper Nichols Poetry Collection

By: Morgan Harper Nichols
Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Includes 6 audiobook-exclusive poems!In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays invites you to reclaim moments of brokenness, division, and pain and re-envision them as experiences of reconciliation, unity, and hope.Popular... Read more

Inward

By: Yung Pueblo
Narrated by: Yung Pueblo
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

true poweris livingthe realizationthat you are your ownhealer, hero, and leaderInward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the listener that healing,... Read more

All Along You Were Blooming

Thoughts for Boundless Living

Morgan Harper Nichols Poetry Collection

By: Morgan Harper Nichols
Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. This illustrated collection of poetry and prose invites you to stumble into the sunlight and delight in the wild and boundless grace you've been given.Popular Instagram poet and bestselling author Morgan Harper Nichols gives you... Read more

Black Girl, Call Home

By: Jasmine Mans
Narrated by: Jasmine Mans
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

“This collection. Have you ever closed a book and suddenly felt that all that you are, all that you've seen has somehow been made tangible through another's voice? Have you ever felt called in to let go, to be heard, and to be seen? That is what Mans has done here. I will forever hold onto the beautiful ways in which Jasmine pulls apart and gives... Read more

The Hill We Climb

An Inaugural Poem for the Country

By: Amanda Gorman
Narrated by: Amanda Gorman & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 9 minutes

Amanda Gorman’s powerful and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration

“Stunning.” —CNN 
“Dynamic.” —NPR
“Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue


On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th... Read more