Don't Call Us Dead
Poems
By: Danez Smith
Narrated by: Danez Smith
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where... Read more
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By: Eve L. Ewing
Narrated by: Eve L. Ewing
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries—through poems recounting the... Read more
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By: Upile Chisala
Narrated by: Upile Chisala
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
As Soft as Fire collects Upile Chisala’s three acclaimed poetry books -- soft magic, nectar, and a fire like you -- in audiobook form, complete with the author’s reflections on her inspiration and process.
soft magic, Chisala’s debut collection, explores themes of survival and healing; nectar expands on the topics of growth and renewal despite... Read more
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By: Upile Chisala
Narrated by: Upile Chisala
Length: 47 minutes
A fierce and lyrical collection of poetry celebrating the moments of triumph and beauty in our lives, as well as the moments of despair—recasting them as opportunities for growth.
In this never-before-published collection, poet Upile Chisala grapples with themes of love, loss, and desire. Throughout this third book, she explores her identity as... Read more
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52 Weeks of Self-Love, Self-Care, and Self-Discovery
By: Cleo Wade
Narrated by: Cleo Wade
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
Based on Cleo Wade’s bestselling book, Heart Talk, these pages string together gentle prompts, words of encouragement, and inquiries into the body, mind, and soul.
Inspired by her conversations with the thousands of fans she has met on her nationwide sold-out tours, Heart Talk: The Journal is a space to share your own truths alongside hers.
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By: Jericho Brown
Narrated by: Jericho Brown
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award
Jericho Brown's daring 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... Read more
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An Interpretation
By: Alain Locke
Narrated by: York Whitaker, Robin Eller, Charon Normand-Widmer, Ron Butler, J. D. Jackson, Sean Crisden, Cary Hite, Bill Andrew Quinn, Leon Nixon, Earl Sewell, Rhett Samuel Price, Lynch Travis, Dez Walker, Patryce Williams & Kevin R. Free
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
This anthology edited by the American writer, philosopher, and patron of the arts Alain Locke brings together some of the most influential pieces of African American works from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Featuring the voices of Zora Neale Thurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes, Locke included commentary on the... Read more
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Poems
By: Danez Smith
Narrated by: Danez Smith
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
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 a... Read more
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Poems
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Hanif Abdurraquib’s powerful collection of poems explores the unending heartbreak of being black in America and how to find strength and self-actualization. Landscaped by graves, mirrors, and music these poems take the personal grief of being barked at by dogs and frames and re-frames those aggression into explorations on how our nation’s... Read more
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