Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Poems
By Warsan Shire
Narrated by: Warsan Shire
Length: 1 hours 7 minutes
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on BeyoncĆ©ās Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
āThe beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.āāRoxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
āShire is the real thingāfresh, cutting, indisputably... Read more »
Call Us What We Carry
Poems
By Amanda Gorman
Narrated by: Amanda Gorman
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller
The breakout poetryĀ collectionĀ by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman
Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetryĀ collectionĀ by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet... Read more »
Many Miles
Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver
By Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 41 minutes
Following the success ofĀ At Blackwater Pond, this second audio reccording from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four new, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetryāfrom her classic nature writing to her verses for her... Read more »
Life on Mars
Poems
By Tracy K. Smith
Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
Length: 1 hours 22 minutes
In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the... Read more »
Brown
Poems
By Kevin Young
Narrated by: Kevin Young
Length: 1 hours 51 minutes
James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection.
āVital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.ā āThe New York Times
Divided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way... Read more »
Homie
Poems
By Danez Smith
Narrated by: Danez Smith
Length: 1 hours 32 minutes
Homie
“In their third collection, Danez Smith shakes to life the parts of people that have gone to sleep waiting for this time in the world to be over. Those emotions that raise up too much anger or grief ā all of them are alive again and seen and spoken for with utmost care and a tremendously welcome sense of humor. Pick this book up and carry it with you everywhere. It can be like a video game heart for you, and who doesnāt need an extra heart?”
Luis Lopez, Moon Palace Books
The Fire This Time
A New Generation Speaks about Race
By Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, Korey Jackson & Susan Spain
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The... Read more »
The Type
By Sarah Kay
Narrated by: Sarah Kay
Length: 6 minutes
Sarah Kay's powerful spoken word poetry performances have gone viral, with more than 10 million online views and thousands more in global live audiences. In her second single-poem volume, Kay takes readers along a lyrical road toward empowerment, exploring the promise and complicated reality of being a woman.
During her spoken word poetry... Read more »
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Poems
By Joy Harjo
Narrated by: Joy Harjo
Length: 1 hours 53 minutes
A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from...
Read more »I Would Leave Me If I Could.
A Collection of Poetry
By Halsey
Narrated by: Halsey
Length: 1 hours 32 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Grammy Awardānominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, she reveals never-before-heard poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder.
In this intimate audio performance of her debut collection, Halsey bares... Read more »
All Along You Were Blooming
Thoughts for Boundless Living
By Morgan Harper Nichols
Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols
Length: 1 hours 47 minutes
A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. All Along You Were Blooming is the ultimate love letter from the pen of popular Instagram poet Morgan Harper Nichols to your mind, heart, soul, and body.
On Instagram @morganharpernicols, Morgan has over a million followers. Fans...
Read more »Black Girl, Call Home
By Jasmine Mans
Narrated by: Jasmine Mans
Length: 1 hours 50 minutes
Black Girl, Call Home
“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 life to the tiny variables which contribute to the formulation of one's blackness, queerness, and womanhood. ”
Deidre, WORD Bookstores
Dark Sons
By Nikki Grimes
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 1 hours 38 minutes
āBoth lyrical and powerful, Grimesā unusual novel is mediation on faith and father-son relationships ⦠Grimesā commanding metaphors, authoritative style and complex characterizations are uniquely compelling.āāPublisherās Weekly, starred reviewāThe elemental connections and the hope (āYou made it / in the end / and so will Iā) will speak to a... Read more »
If They Come for Us
Poems
By Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar
Length: 1 hours 22 minutes
If They Come for Us
“Raw, but not unpolished.Ā Dripping with sadness and honey.Ā Rage beyond anger, a lesson in history and violence.Ā A comprehensible example of otherness in America for those who havenāt experienced it; for those who donāt know theyāre perpetuating it.Ā An honest portrayal of a life shaped by governmentsā omissions, of the lies of the self and others, and of waking to the daylight, the promise held in sunshine, and in finding oneās own voice, own words, own way of telling oneās own story.”
BrocheAroe, River Dog Book Co.
all of it is you.
poetry
By Nico Tortorella
Narrated by: Nico Tortorella
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
A debut poetry collection from actor Nico Tortorella exploringĀ āall of it,ā from the smallest cells in our bodies to the outer limits of ourĀ universe.Ā
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Nico Tortorella's debut poetry collection presents a singular voice honed through years as an actor, podcaster, and advocate, one colored with love, wonder, and endless curiosity. But it is... Read more »
Life of the Party
Poems
By Olivia Gatwood
Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalized world, from a thrilling new feminist voice.
iām a good girl, bad girl, dream girl, sad girl
girl next door sunbathing in the driveway
i wanna be them all at once, i wanna be
all the girls Iāve ever loved
āfrom āGirlā
Lauded for the power of her... Read more »
How Far You Have Come
Musings on Beauty and Courage
By Morgan Harper Nichols
Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Includes 6 audiobook-exclusive poems!
How Far You Have ComeĀ is an exquisite collection of poetry and essays from bestselling artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols. In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. Morgan weaves together personal reflections with her signature...
Read more »Amazing Peace
And Other Poems by Maya Angelou
By Maya Angelou
Narrated by: Maya Angelou
Length: 29 minutes
This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. āAngels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look... Read more »
Finna
Poems
By Nate Marshall
Narrated by: Nate Marshall
Length: 1 hours 35 minutes
Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacularāits influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy
āTerrific . . .Ā illuminates life in this country in a strikingly original way.āāRon Charles,Ā The Washington Post
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF... Read more »
Billy Collins Live
A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 2005
By Billy Collins
Narrated by: Billy Collins
Length: 1 hours 14 minutes
In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most often standing room only.
Performed by the author... Read more »