You Better Be Lightning
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By: Andrea Gibson
Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One... Read more
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A Socially Acceptable Breakdown
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By: Patrick Roche
Narrated by: Patrick Roche
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
A Socially Acceptable Breakdown is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, queerness, mental health, grief, pop culture, body image, love, joy, memory, myth, and magic. Read more
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Afterwards
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By: Reagan Myers
Narrated by: Reagan Myers
Length: 45 minutes
Afterwards is a book about the things that come after trauma. It encompasses the different kinds of grief– primarily the loss of a friend to suicide, but also the loss of an important relationship, and dealing with some loss related to family. There are frank discussions of mental illness and the spectrum of emotions that come with moving... Read more
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What I Learned from the Trees
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By: L. E. Bowman
Narrated by: L. E. Bowman
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interactions affect us as individuals, families, and communities. With a backbone rooted in primordial imagery and allegory, and a focus on how the growing disconnect with our own wants, needs, and fears... Read more
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NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING, BUT ENOUGH
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By: Kyle Tran Myhre
Narrated by: Kyle Tran Myhre
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes
Kyle Tran Myhre’s NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING, BUT ENOUGH is a sci-fi-flavored exploration of the role that art and artists play in resisting authoritarianism. Featuring new poems, theater elements, and Casper Pham‘s stunning visual art, the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony... Read more
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Home. Girl. Hood.
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By: Ebony Stewart
Narrated by: Ebony Stewart
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
The official re-release of Ebony Stewart’s latest collection Home.Girl.Hood. Rings on every finger. Hood and educated AF. You’ve met her. Wearing all her feelings and responding with a side-eye or a tongue-pop. You’ve seen her. At the grocery store. In restaurants. On the subway. At the bus stop. In a car you pulled up next to blaring whatever... Read more
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Revenge Body
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By: Rachel Wiley
Narrated by: Rachel Wiley
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Revenge Body is Rachel Wiley’s third collection of poetry, full of the sharp wit and bold honesty we know and love. Wiley invites her readers to join her on a journey filled with righteous anger, Black identity, magic, mental health, navigating maternal relationships, and the love and loss that comes from a breakup. Read more
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Bloodfresh
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By: Ebony Stewart
Narrated by: Ebony Stewart
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
BloodFresh is a celebration of identity. Ebony Stewart reclaims her own narrative to speak against the racism and colorism she’s experienced, while criticizing society’s treatment of women as sexual objects. This collection is an open letter to acknowledge, overcome, and learn new ways to use poetry as a coping technique. As BloodFresh reflects... Read more
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A Peculiar People
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By: Steven Willis
Narrated by: Steven Willis
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
A Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis crafts a cast of characters, showcasing their struggles, identities, & underlying emotions. Willis champions the art of storytelling: weaving pop-culture and screenwriting elements to allow the reader to view this social commentary with a fresh lens. This... Read more
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So, Stranger
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By: Topaz Winters
Narrated by: Topaz Winters
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Topaz Winters’ third poetry collection spans three countries & three generations. In a far-reaching & deftly-woven series of ars poeticas, Winters questions the boundary between the things we inherit & those we owe, stands at the grave of the American dream, & unspools the enormous grace & guilt of being loved. So, Stranger... Read more
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Urbanshee
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By: Siaara Freeman
Narrated by: Siaara Freeman
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Urbanshee is Siaara Freeman’s retelling of fairy tales and mythological stories through a modern and urban lens. This collection discusses the weight of being Black in America, Freeman’s relationships to lovers and family, and how the physical place you grew up can become part of your identity. Urbanshee expertly combines humor, fantasy, and raw... Read more
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Never Catch Me
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By: Darius Simpson
Narrated by: Darius Simpson
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Darius Simpson’s debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration over time. Simpson pulls back the curtain, exposing the violence enacted against and upon, Black bodies, and yet, still, each poem is saturated in revolution and hope. Never Catch Me is the anthem necessary to organize a community... Read more
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Sweet, Young, & Worried
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By: Blythe Baird
Narrated by: Blythe Baird
Length: 48 minutes
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. Following her widely successful debut, Baird wastes no time as she reels in her reader with breathtaking imagery and punching narratives. With expert precision and vulnerability, Baird guides us on an expedition embracing queerness, love, loss,... Read more
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How to Maintain Eye Contact
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By: Robert Wood Lynn
Narrated by: Robert Wood Lynn
Length: 40 minutes
Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncertainty, interpersonal uncertainty and uncertainty at a larger scale. These narrative poems, influenced by storytelling traditions, find themselves at the nexus of the intimate and the humorous, as well as the absurd and the tragic. These poems examine isolation and grief in their... Read more
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Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
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By: Jared Singer
Narrated by: Jared Singer
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
With work that ranges from the laugh out loud funny to the silence and rage of loss, Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction is a must read. This is a collection of work that asks itself for forgiveness while becoming an instruction manual on how readers can follow suit. These complex and passionate poems make space for a... Read more
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The Willies
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By: Adam Falkner
Narrated by: Adam Falkner
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
The Willies, Falkner’s first full-length poetry collection, offers a sharp and vulnerable portrait of the journey into queerhood in America. Departing from a more familiar coming out narrative he centers the stories of dueling selves. Masquerading white boy. Child of an addict. Closeted varsity athlete. Drifting seamlessly between the scholarly... Read more
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Birthright
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By: George Abraham
Narrated by: George Abraham
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abraham’s highly anticipated debut constructs a dialogue in which “every pronoun is a Free Palestine.” Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing. Birthright begs readers to stay, to stay lucid, to stay alive, to stay present in this very moment; as it... Read more
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Fat Girl Finishing School
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By: Rachel Wiley
Narrated by: Rachel Wiley
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
The first full-length collection of poems from Rachel Wiley, whose work spans from body image, to love and loss, and feminism. Fat Girl Finishing School is a love letter to Wiley’s living body. When confronted with fatphobia, racism, misogyny, and shame each poem chooses self love, despite society’s expectations of conformity. More than just a... Read more
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I'll Fly Away
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By: Rudy Francisco
Narrated by: Rudy Francisco
Length: 52 minutes
In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Francisco has created a collection of poems that savor the day-to-day, treating it as worship, turning it into an opportunity to plant new seeds of growth. Language so often fails us, but Francisco has found his way around this as he creates his own words for the things... Read more
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Butcher
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By: Natasha T. Miller
Narrated by: Natasha T. Miller
Length: 49 minutes
Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, using the cuts of the cow as a metaphor Miller, explores addiction, family & tragedy. Butcher takes the body of a cow and cleaves it into 5... Read more
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