Bestsellers
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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Raw & intimate
- By Ashley on 12-02-23
By: Andrea Gibson
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience....
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Unheard poems and stories In
- By paralegal54 on 03-01-24
By: Langston Hughes
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- By: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrated by: C. S. Verdád
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever....
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I love Neruda
- By heather on 08-06-18
By: Pablo Neruda, and others
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You Get So Alone at Times
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.
By: Charles Bukowski
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Кобзар
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Кобзар — збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми...
By: Тарас Шевченко
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Soft Magic
- By: Upile Chisala
- Narrated by: Upile Chisala
- Length: 27 mins
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From Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes a collection of poetry and prose exploring the self, joy, Blackness, gender, matters of the heart, spirituality, the experience of Diaspora, and above all, how we survive....
By: Upile Chisala
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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Raw & intimate
- By Ashley on 12-02-23
By: Andrea Gibson
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience....
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Unheard poems and stories In
- By paralegal54 on 03-01-24
By: Langston Hughes
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- By: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrated by: C. S. Verdád
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever....
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I love Neruda
- By heather on 08-06-18
By: Pablo Neruda, and others
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You Get So Alone at Times
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.
By: Charles Bukowski
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Кобзар
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Кобзар — збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми...
By: Тарас Шевченко
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Soft Magic
- By: Upile Chisala
- Narrated by: Upile Chisala
- Length: 27 mins
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From Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes a collection of poetry and prose exploring the self, joy, Blackness, gender, matters of the heart, spirituality, the experience of Diaspora, and above all, how we survive....
By: Upile Chisala
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Danger on Peaks
- By: Gary Snyder
- Narrated by: Gary Snyder
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Perhaps Snyder most personal, autobiographical collection, the audio begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima....
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Gary Snyder in a Lifetime, Unforgettable
- By Susie on 05-05-16
By: Gary Snyder
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DKMH
- Poems
- By: Dacre Montgomery
- Narrated by: Dacre Montgomery
- Length: 38 mins
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Since its release as a small mixed-media podcast, DKMH has topped charts all over the internet. Written and produced by Stranger Things star Dacre Montgomery, this exciting debut collection of poetry and prose is an analysis of ego, love, anger, and anxiety....
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Beautiful
- By BeachShark on 04-04-24
By: Dacre Montgomery
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Spoon River Anthology
- By: Edgar Lee Masters
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday, Andy Harrington, Elizabeth Klett, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems that describe life - and death - in a small town. Each poem is a monologue delivered by a resident of Spoon River, describing events in their lives, and the circumstances that led to their occasionally untimely end....
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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- By: Hala Alyan
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem....
By: Hala Alyan
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Light for the World to See
- A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events....
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Powerful
- By SH on 11-04-23
By: Kwame Alexander
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
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This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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woke up no light
- poems
- By: Leila Mottley
- Narrated by: Leila Mottley
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California.
By: Leila Mottley
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Mexico City Blues
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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From the renowned Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes this important work of lyric verse, one of his most formally inventive books.
By: Jack Kerouac
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What I Learned from the Trees
- By: L. E. Bowman
- Narrated by: L. E. Bowman
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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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....
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Not even sure how I came across this title!
- By victoria on 06-18-23
By: L. E. Bowman
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Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 10 mins
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This poem was written by Wordsworth after a walking tour through the Welsh Borders. As usual with many of Wordsworth's poems, it opens with a description of the countryside....
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completely amature reading
- By Wallace Stevens on 12-28-23
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A Year of Last Things
- Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back....
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Mesmerizing !
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-24
By: Michael Ondaatje
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Judas Goat
- Poems
- By: Gabrielle Bates
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Bates
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships....
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Unforgettable Images…and more
- By EB on 02-04-23
By: Gabrielle Bates
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Modigliani and Nefertiti
- The Wheel of Life!
- By: Iliyan Yurukov
- Narrated by: Leah Frederick
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The reconstruction and comparison of the model’s forms in the portrait and face image, in connection with new discoveries in science and archaeology, has aroused some interest in the funeral cult and its supernatural techniques. Continuum, plastic, and graphics of African art....
By: Iliyan Yurukov
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Selected Poems
- By: Ai Qing, Robert Dorsett - translator, Ai Weiwei - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih, Nancy Wu, Robert Dorsett
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets - now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei....
By: Ai Qing, and others
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Birthright
- By: George Abraham
- Narrated by: George Abraham
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing....
By: George Abraham
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A People's History of Chicago
- By: Kevin Coval
- Narrated by: Kevin Coval, Jamila Woods
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold....
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Better in Print
- By Katie Rosewicz on 10-04-22
By: Kevin Coval
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New American Best Friend
- By: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 54 mins
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One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes....
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- By Keaira on 07-29-19
By: Olivia Gatwood
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The Poetry of Strangers
- What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter
- By: Brian Sonia-Wallace
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems....
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A must listen to for poetry lovers.
- By Lloyd Richardson on 07-01-20
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Vinegar Hill
- Poems
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events....
By: Colm Tóibín
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Wanderlust Poems
- The world is your oyster
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wordsworth, Sarojini Naidu, and others
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Most of us have an urge to journey, to take the body and mind on a journey that will sate our curiosity, build our experiences and memories and prepare ourselves for yet another.
By: Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
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Golden Ax
- Penguin Poets
- By: Rio Cortez
- Narrated by: Rio Cortez
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West....
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Absolutely wonderful!
- By ML on 09-27-22
By: Rio Cortez
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Muscadine
- Stahlecker Selections
- By: A. H. Jerriod Avant
- Narrated by: A. H. Jerriod Avant
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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A. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape’s “thick skin [that] teeth / pierce breaks to pour // sweetly across the tongue”....
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Fifty Shades of the Mystic East
- By: Rumi, Mirabai, Confucius, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Eleanor Rushton
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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Whilst the notion of the Mystic East and Oriental wisdom was greatly romanticised by the Victorians and others, the shadow of Colonialism has smudged the view. These great cultures are some of humanity’s earliest, their works, their art some of its most daring and most accomplished.
By: Rumi, and others
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Praising the Paradox
- By: Tina Schumann
- Narrated by: Tina Schumann
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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This full collection of 56 poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, fragility, and the constructs we must create in order to face the transient nature of life was named a finalist in the National Poetry Series, The New Issues Poetry Prize, The Four Way Books Intro Prize....
By: Tina Schumann