29 Best Poetry Books
Poetry is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Poetry audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Poetry audiobooks below.
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You Are Only Just Beginning
- By: Morgan Harper Nichols
- Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: February 14, 2023
- Language: English
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5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDRead by the author with eleven audiobook-exclusive bonus poems! From bestselling author and beloved artist Morgan Harper Nichols, this collection of poetry empowers you to embrace your next adventure with confidence and grace. Sometimes it’sRead by the author with eleven audiobook-exclusive bonus poems!
From bestselling author and beloved artist Morgan Harper Nichols, this collection of poetry empowers you to embrace your next adventure with confidence and grace. Sometimes it’s difficult to take that first step into your future and embrace the unknown. In this collection of poetry, Morgan reimagines the classic heroine‚Äôs journey‚Äîfrom the very first call to adventure, through trials, hardships, and new relationships, all the way back home‚Äîand offers key lessons and affirmations to encourage and equip you every step of the way. As you travel your own journey of self-discovery, you’re invited to:
- Cultivate the courage you need to follow your passions
- Develop curiosity about the natural world around you
- Find comfort and inspiration for the inevitable trials on your journey
- Reflect on how your past has prepared you
- Step out in wonder and faith, knowing there is more for you
 
Look for the previous books in this series: All Along You Were Blooming and How Far You Have Come.
 
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Selected Poems Aldous Huxley
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Nano Nagle
- Length: 1 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.95 USDA beautiful selection of poems from a young man who would become a brilliant author and essayist, a thinker who was very much at the forefront of changes in the twentieth century. Here is a book that could be carried in your pocket and readA beautiful selection of poems from a young man who would become a brilliant author and essayist, a thinker who was very much at the forefront of changes in the twentieth century. Here is a book that could be carried in your pocket and read quickly–a poem of innocent love or remembrance of events that make the boy become the man.
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Ewaso Village
- By: Chip Duncan
- Narrator: Chip Duncan
- Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThe Maasai people of East Africa comprise one of the most intriguing and resourceful cultures on earth. For more than a thousand years, they’ve survived and thrived on the landscape surrounding Mt. Kenya and the Maasai Mara borderlands ofThe Maasai people of East Africa comprise one of the most intriguing and resourceful cultures on earth. For more than a thousand years, they’ve survived and thrived on the landscape surrounding Mt. Kenya and the Maasai Mara borderlands of Kenya and Tanzania. “Despite colonialism and land development, the Maasai have protected their nomadic lifestyle and traditional values with a rare combination of pride, humility, and perseverance,” says poet/filmmaker Chip Duncan. “They live in harmony with some of the world’s most impressive wildlife–lions, elephants, leopards, and rhinos–while herding cows, goats, and camels as a way of life.”
In Ewaso Village, Duncan tells the story of a small community of Maasai and Samburu people in Laikipia County, Kenya. Using a combination of poetry and prose, Ewaso Village touches on universal themes including rites of passage, creation myths, death rituals, and childbirth while posing significant questions about climate change, conservation, women’s rights, and the survival of indigenous cultures.
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Droga Do Nieba (Road to Heaven)
- By: Sona Van
- Narrator: Beata Pozniak
- Length: 1 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: Polish
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5(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThis collection of Sona Van’s poems is a tribute to the victims of genocide and war. With extraordinary feminine sensitivity, the poet looks at the world in all its striking contrasts, constantly probing the depths of her consciousness withThis collection of Sona Van’s poems is a tribute to the victims of genocide and war. With extraordinary feminine sensitivity, the poet looks at the world in all its striking contrasts, constantly probing the depths of her consciousness with new modes of expression. The collection consists of ephemeral poems characterized by dramatic encounters with nothingness in which an uncanny ability to capture extreme situations prevails. Sona Van’s poetry represents the truest testimony of historical experience and the reality in which it still lives. Full of unexpected juxtapositions of time, rhythm, and imagery, the poems are inspiring to believers and skeptics alike.
Full contents:
File 01:
1. Libretto dla pustyni (Libretto for the desert)
File 02:
2. Jestem wiecznym pajakiem (I am the eternal spider)
3. W ciemnosci oszalala… (Going crazy)
4. Gdy mnie nie bedzie… (When I’m gone)
5. Lubie twoja… (I like your…)
6. Wierze… (I believe)
7. Biografia (Biography)
8. Boze Narodzenie (Christmas)
File 03:
9. W tym dniu (On this day)
File 04:
10. Znudzilam sie (I got bored)
11. Zycie… (Life)
12. Gdy chce (When I want)
File 05:
13. Inna zima (A different winter)
File 06:
14. Przysiegam (I swear)
File 07:
15. Zabawa w chowanego (Hide and seek)
16. Wreszcie… (At last)
17. Muzo… (Muse)
18. W dniu… (When)
19. Zderzylam sie z toba… (I bumped into you)
File 08:
20. Dlaczego nie doczekalam konca (Why I didn’t make it to the end)
21. Niebo?… (Sky?)
File 09:
22. Z okna samolotu (From the window of an airplane)
23. . Moja muza… (My muse)
File 10:
24. Emigrant Ormianin (Armenian emigrant)
25. Moje sny niezliczone wariackie (Countless wild dreams)
File 11:
26. Mijaja milosci (Love passes by)
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27. Jakie to uczucie (What kind of feeling)
File 13:
28. Wziac… czapke? (Take …. a hat?)
File 14:
29. Niewazne jak sie nazywam (It doesn’t matter what my name is)
File 15:
30. Usmiechajacy sie ptak (Smiling bird)
31. Przed chwila zlamal sie (Just broke)
32. Wkrotce zrobi sie ciemno (Soon it’ll be dark)
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33. Najpierw piorun… na pewno (Lightning comes first)
34. Kiedy… (When)
35. Znalazlam juz (I’ve found it)
36. To nie wydaje mi sie (I don’t think so)
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37. Poczekaj troche (Wait a minute)
38. Ja?…(Me?)
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39. Daj mi odejsc (Let me go)
40. Oto i nasza wies (Here is our village)
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41. Pierwsze skurcze (First contractions)
42. Jesli wina naprawde… (If a fault…)
43. Urodzilam sie z czlowieka (I was born of men)
44. Dobro i zlo (Good and evil)
File 20:
45. Wszechswiat w Tobie (The universe inside of you)
46. Stan moj proroku (Wait my prophet)
File 21:
47. Swiat jest pelen dawnych milosci (The world is full of old love)
File 22:
48. Noc zmienia wszystko (Night changes everything)
49. Ostatnio… (Lately)
File 23:
50. Ballada o koniu (A ballad about a horse)
File 24:
51. Szczesliwy jest ten… (Lucky is the one who sees but not believes)
52. W dni… (During those days)
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53. Gdy jestem sama… (When I am lonely)
54. Wybudowalam miasto (I created a city)
55. Wiatr… (Wind)
56. Ostatni dzien jesieni… (Last day of fall)
57. Czy pamietasz polane? (Do you remember the glade?)
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58. Pierwszy byl placz (First there was a cry)
59. Poeta zmarl… (The poet died)
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60. ,,Tajemnica zycia Wladcy” (The Lord’s secret)
61. Znalazlam Cie Panie Boze (I found you God)
File 28:
62. Laska niewiedzy (Cane of ignorance)
63. Czy byla to chwila… (Was it a moment)
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64. Osobista historia (A personal story)
65. Czasie… (Time)
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Chwile zamyslenia (Moments of Reflection)
- By: Barbara Bukowska
- Narrator: Beata Pozniak
- Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: Polish
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5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USD“Chwile zamyslenia” – Beata Pozniak, aktorka – tuz przed niespodziewana smiercia krewniaczki, Barbary Bukowskiej, otrzymuje wiersze napisane przez nia. Barbara “pisala tylko tak dla siebie”. Wiersze sa osobiste,“Chwile zamyslenia” – Beata Pozniak, aktorka – tuz przed niespodziewana smiercia krewniaczki, Barbary Bukowskiej, otrzymuje wiersze napisane przez nia. Barbara “pisala tylko tak dla siebie”. Wiersze sa osobiste, rodzinne – autorka przeprowadza rozmowe ze swoja podswiadomoscia, z nadprzyrodzona sila, z Bogiem. Pozniak piszac Wstep do tomiku “Chwile zamyslenia”(ebook i paperback) i czytajac wiersze Bukowskiej (audiobook), przypomina nam wszystkim, zeby sie nie poddawac, czas doceniac, i…. jak autorka stwierdza, zeby “dobry slad pozostawic po sobie na ziemi”. A znow Andriej Siniawski utrzymuje, ze ,,Czlowiek rodzi sie w jednym egzemplarzu i kiedy ginie, nikt go nie moze zastapic.” Zatem kazdy z nas ma potencjal w sobie i cos do ofiarowania z siebie innym. Nalezy tylko znalezc to i dalej przekazywac maluczkim mieszkancom planety Ziemi.
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The Book of Common Courage
- By: K.J. Ramsey
- Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: January 17, 2023
- Language: English
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4.88(126 ratings)
4.88(126 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDRead by the author with extra audiobook-exclusive poems. The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flicker of strength in the small and hard moments of life. Beloved author and therapist K. J.Read by the author with extra audiobook-exclusive poems.
The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flicker of strength in the small and hard moments of life. Beloved author and therapist K. J. Ramsey invites you to journey word-by-word through Psalm 23 to experience how the Good Shepherd is with you and for you, especially in the valleys of life. When you struggle to find the words to hold your pain or trauma, be encouraged to cultivate the compassion and courage to believe that your story will, in fact, end in joy.
Through K. J.’s lyrical and emotive writing, you are invited to:
- Surrender your anxiety and your tears to a faithful God
- Validate your emotions and embrace them as the gift they are
- Slow down and remember that good will come again
- Replenish your soul with the life of Christ and the promises of God
- Refresh your faith with a peace that lasts
- Experience newfound confidence in prayer
- Remember that even when pain is not past-tense, God is still present
 
Courage is a common hope that we can cultivate¬†together. These prayers and poems can be read in group settings–among friends, families, and worshipping communities–and are also ideal for personal reflection.
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Terraform
- By: Propaganda
- Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 08, 2021
- Language: English
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4.59(314 ratings)
4.59(314 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.003.99 USDPerformed by Propaganda and featuring four exclusive original songs. In this debut collection of essays and poetry, musician, speaker, and activist Propaganda inspires us to create a better, more equitable world. “If we get to make the veryPerformed by Propaganda and featuring four exclusive original songs.
In this debut collection of essays and poetry, musician, speaker, and activist Propaganda inspires us to create a better, more equitable world.
“If we get to make the very cultures that shape who we are, then let us remake them in the best way possible.”
In this deep, challenging, and thoughtful book, Propaganda looks at the ways in which our world is broken. Using the metaphor of terraforming–creating a livable world out of an inhospitable one–he shows how we can begin to reshape our homes, friendships, communities, and politics.
In this transformative time–when we are redefining what a truly just and equitable world looks like, and reflecting on the work that needs to be done both in our spiritual and secular lives–Propaganda rallies readers to create that just world. He sheds light on how nefarious origin stories have skewed our views of ourselves and others and allowed gross injustices, and demonstrates how great storytelling and excellent art can create and shape new perspectives of the world and make all of us better.
?Includes the songs ” IAGBTW (It Ain’t Gotta Be This Way)”, ” The Soils Alive”, ” Us We “, and “Imagine” (featuring Nahoa Life) by Propaganda.
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This Wound Is a World
- By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Narrator: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Length: 1 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.53(1349 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDBilly-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Metis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beautyBilly-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Metis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what we’ve been waiting for.”
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside.” Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay.” Presented here with several additional poems, this prize-winning collection pursues fresh directions for queer and decolonial theory as it opens uncharted paths for Indigenous poetry in North America. It is theory that sings, poetry that marshals experience in the service of a larger critique of the coloniality of the present and the tyranny of sexual and racial norms.
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I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart
- By: Dedan Gills
- Narrator: Belvie Rooks
- Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThe story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and new as now.” Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an evenThe story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and new as now.” Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love. Dedan (1945-2015) was a lifelong social justice and human rights activist who viewed himself as a “soulutionary.” His favorite mantra–“Music is my medicine! Kindness is my song!”–was not only the hallmark of his work but the quality of his presence. Barbara Holmes writes, “His laughter, wisdom, and attentive presence set the example of how to soar while on this human journey.”
Belvie and Dedan’s journey took them to Accra, Ghana, where they were married; across the United States and Canada–including the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Trail–planting trees and building community in cities like Toronto and Oakland as part of their organization Growing A Global Heart; and finally to Dedan’s cancer diagnosis and passing at Zen Hospice in San Francisco in 2015. This book, born of that journey, speaks to love that is at once personal, collective, and cosmic. Each page holds an invitation to seek beauty amidst heartbreak, and to raise the level of humanity. Belvie’s wisdom and listening for how this book wanted to be written, and the reflections of many who knew Dedan well, allow it to resonate with remembrance, but also with a future born of each of us.
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dayliGht
- By: Roya Marsh
- Narrator: Roya Marsh
- Length: 1 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 31, 2020
- Language: English
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4.49(213 ratings)
4.49(213 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDThis program is read by the author dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race. Growing up, Roya Marsh was consideredThis program is read by the author
dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race.
Growing up, Roya Marsh was considered “tomboy passing.” With an affinity for baggy clothes, cornrows, and bandanas, she came of age in an era when the wide spectrum of gender and sexuality was rarely acknowledged or discussed. She knew she was “different,” her family knew she was “different,” but anything outside of the heteronorm was either disregarded or disparaged.
In her stunning debut, written in protest to an absence of representation, Marsh recalls her early life and the attendant torments of a butch Black woman coming of age in America. In lush, powerful, and vulnerable verses, dayliGht unpacks traumas to unearth truths, revealing a deep well of resilience, a cutting sense of irony, and an astonishing fresh talent.
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B
- By: Sarah Kay
- Narrator: Sarah Kay
- Length: 8 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 18, 2015
- Language: English
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4.49(3179 ratings)
4.49(3179 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.001.98 USDA whimsical love letter, a shared promise, a thank you note, and a whispered secret to mothers and daughters everywhere. The perfect gift, B celebrates the bond that exists between a parent and a child. Short, touching, and lovingly performed, it isA whimsical love letter, a shared promise, a thank you note, and a whispered secret to mothers and daughters everywhere. The perfect gift, B celebrates the bond that exists between a parent and a child. Short, touching, and lovingly performed, it is a family tradition waiting to begin.... Read more -
Alias Anna
- By: Susan Hood
- Narrator: Aimee B. Dawson
- Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: March 22, 2022
- Language: English
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4.49(495 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDThe moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse byThe moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna’s son).
She wouldn’t be Zhanna. She’d use an alias. A for Anna. A for alive.
When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl, must leave behind her friends, her freedom, and her promising musical future at the world’s top conservatory. With no time to say goodbye, Zhanna, her sister Frina, and their entire family are removed from their home by the Nazis and forced on a long, cold, death march. When a guard turns a blind eye, Zhanna flees with nothing more than her musical talent, her beloved sheet music, and her father’s final plea: “I don’t care what you do. Just live.”
This incredible true story in-verse about sisterhood, survival, and music is perfect for fans of Lifeboat 12, Inside Out and Back Again, and Alan Gratz.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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The Nightfields
- By: Joanna Klink
- Length: 1 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4.48(78 ratings)
4.48(78 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDA new collection from a poet who has made “a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent” (Louise Gluck). Joanna Klink’s fifth book begins with personal poems of loss–a tree ripped out by a windstorm, aA new collection from a poet who has made “a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent” (Louise Gluck).
Joanna Klink’s fifth book begins with personal poems of loss–a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with “Night Sky,” thirty metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an open-air observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward a sense of infinitude and connection.
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Inquire Within
- By: In-Q
- Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 31, 2020
- Language: English
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4.48(241 ratings)
4.48(241 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.99 USDIn this powerful and innovative book of poetry and wisdom, award-winning spoken-word poet, songwriter, and performer IN-Q inspires us to question everything we know and see around us and inside us, to discover what matters most. “PoetryIn this powerful and innovative book of poetry and wisdom, award-winning spoken-word poet, songwriter, and performer IN-Q inspires us to question everything we know and see around us and inside us, to discover what matters most.
“Poetry celebrates vulnerability as a strength rather than a weakness. It is a timeless form of storytelling that inspires connection and allows the audience to feel less alone. Experiencing ourselves through another person’s story creates empathy. And empathy is what the world needs most right now.”–IN-Q
Raised by a single mother in Los Angeles, Adam Schmalholz, known as IN-Q–In Question– discovered his love for poetry through hip-hop. At nineteen, he started performing at Da Poetry Lounge and helped build it into the largest open mic in the country. Since then, IN-Q has traveled the world capturing the hearts and minds of millions.
Inquire Within is an accessible, rhythmic, and transformative reading experience. In-Q’s poetry contemplates universal issues of love, loss, pain, forgiveness, and belief, and speaks to our complicated lives today, offering us a different way to think about ourselves and our world. Imaginative and highly visual, this beautifully designed work of art reflects IN-Q’s unique sensibility and includes inspirational call outs to challenge our hearts and minds. Profound in its simplicity, incandescent in its power, Inquire Within emotionally delivers on every page.
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Donald Hall: Prose & Poetry
- By: Donald Hall
- Narrator: Donald Hall
- Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.48(32 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDAuthor of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs here dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from six of his works of prose. Donald Hall has been writing poems for over fifty years and now stands as one ofAuthor of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs here dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from six of his works of prose. Donald Hall has been writing poems for over fifty years and now stands as one of America’s foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire among other honors, Donald Hall gives each listener this gift of words–words painstakingly entwined with passion, energy and love. Prose & Poetry is a tour de force–an intimate convergence of poet, author, and listener.
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I, Too, Sing America
- By: Catherine Clinton
- Narrator: Ashley Bryan
- Length: 2 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.47(130 ratings)
4.47(130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDStarting with Lucy Terry of the early eighteenth century and finishing with poet laureate Rita Dove, this inspiring anthology edited by Catherine Clinton captures the enormous talent and passion of black poets. Powerful and diverse, I, Too, SingStarting with Lucy Terry of the early eighteenth century and finishing with poet laureate Rita Dove, this inspiring anthology edited by Catherine Clinton captures the enormous talent and passion of black poets. Powerful and diverse, I, Too, Sing America is a forum for voices baring their souls, speaking their minds, tracing their roots and proclaiming their dreams.
Each of the twenty-five poets is introduced with a brief biography and poetry notes to help the listener place their work in context. Included in the anthology is:
– “I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes
– “Bars Fight” by Lucy Terry
– “Liberty and Peace” by Phillis Wheatley
– “On Liberty and Slavery” by George Moses Horton
– “Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String” by James M. Whitfield
– “Bury Me in a Free Land” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
– “The Song of the Smoke” by W.E.B. Du Bois
– “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson
– “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
– “The Black Finger” by Angelina Weld Grimke
– “Your World” and “Interracial” by Georgia Douglas Johnson
– “Children of the Sun” by Fenton Johnson
– “If We Must Die” and “The White House” by Claude McKay
– “Beehive” by Jean Toomer
– “Heritage” and “To a Dark Girl” by Gwendolyn Bennett
– “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” by Arna Bontemps
– “Harlem,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Merry-Go-Round,” and “Cross” by Langston Hughes
– “Tableau,” “Saturday’s Child,” and “Incident” by Countee Cullen
– “Sorrow Home” by Margaret Walker
– “Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Malcolm X,” and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
– “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
– “Rites of Passage” by Audre Lorde
– “In the Year” by Amiri Baraka
– “The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Nikki Giovanni
– “Women” by Alice Walker
– “Primer” by Rita Dove
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What Noise Against the Cane
- By: Desiree C. Bailey
- Narrator: Desiree C. Bailey
- Length: 1 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 25, 2022
- Language: English
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4.45(156 ratings)
4.45(156 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThe 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C.The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey’s “poems argue for hope and faith equally… These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.”
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Heart Talk: Reflections
- By: Cleo Wade
- Narrator: Cleo Wade
- Length: 1 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.45(31 ratings)
4.45(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDBased 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 herBased 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.
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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.
As Cleo writes, “The best thing about your life is that it is constantly in a state of design. This means you have, at all times, the power to redesign it. Make moves, allow shifts, smile more, do more, do less, say no, say yes–just remember, when it comes to your life, you are not only the artist but the masterpiece, as well.”
Inside, you will find the opportunity to let go, feel what you need to feel, discover your own poetic wisdom, and become the person you want to be. -
The Essential Neruda
- By: Pablo Neruda
- Narrator: C. S. Verdad
- Length: 1 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.44(5811 ratings)
4.44(5811 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDMore than a hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda’s poetry is as vital and beloved as ever. This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history’s greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of anMore than a hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda’s poetry is as vital and beloved as ever.
This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history’s greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world’s leading Neruda scholars.
A definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth of Neruda’s various styles, themes, and periods, The Essential Neruda breathes new life and understanding into the world of one of Latin America’s–and the world’s–treasures.
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El Neruda Esencial
- By: Pablo Neruda
- Narrator: Gerardo Prat
- Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: Spanish
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4.44(18 ratings)
4.44(18 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDMas de cien anos despues de su nacimiento, la poesia de Pablo Neruda es tan vital y querida como siempre. Esta coleccion presenta cincuenta poemas esenciales de uno de los mas grandes poetas de la historia en nuevas traducciones dinamicas, fruto deMas de cien anos despues de su nacimiento, la poesia de Pablo Neruda es tan vital y querida como siempre.
Esta coleccion presenta cincuenta poemas esenciales de uno de los mas grandes poetas de la historia en nuevas traducciones dinamicas, fruto de una colaboracion sin precedentes entre un equipo de poetas, traductores y los principales eruditos del mundo.
Una seleccion definitiva que se basa en toda la amplitud de los diferentes estilos, temas y periodos de Neruda. El Neruda esencial da vida y comprension al mundo de uno de los tesoros de America Latina y del mundo.
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All Our Wild Wonder
- By: Sarah Kay
- Narrator: Sarah Kay
- Length: 7 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 13, 2018
- Language: English
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4.4(363 ratings)
4.4(363 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.98 USDFrom renowned poet Sarah Kay, a single volume poem perfect for teachers and mentors. All Our Wild Wonder is a vibrant tribute to extraordinary educators and a celebration of learning. The perfect gift for the mentors in our lives, this charming,From renowned poet Sarah Kay, a single volume poem perfect for teachers and mentors.
All Our Wild Wonder is a vibrant tribute to extraordinary educators and a celebration of learning. The perfect gift for the mentors in our lives, this charming, illustrated poem reminds us of the beauty in, and importance of, cultivating curiosity, creativity, and confidence in others.
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Najwa Zebian: The Collected Poems
- By: Najwa Zebian
- Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.39(31 ratings)
4.39(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDNajwa Zebian: The Collected Poems is an audio collection of Zebian’s bestselling poetry, including the full text of Mind Platter, The Nectar of Pain, and Sparks of Phoenix. This bundled audiobook allows readers to access all of Zebian’sNajwa Zebian: The Collected Poems is an audio collection of Zebian’s bestselling poetry, including the full text of Mind Platter, The Nectar of Pain, and Sparks of Phoenix. This bundled audiobook allows readers to access all of Zebian’s moving work in one place, in the author’s own voice.
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The Essential Muriel Rukeyser
- By: Muriel Rukeyser
- Narrator: Tanya Eby
- Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.38(26 ratings)
4.38(26 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDThe definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel RukeyserThe definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey
Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience, particularly sex and single parenthood at a time when these topics were largely taboo; and its wide-ranging exploration of genre and form. As Adrienne Rich wrote: “Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States…She pushes us…to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics.”
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser represents the curation of Rukeyser’s most enduring and urgent work, gathered in one volume that spans the many decades of her life and career, and with an introduction from Natasha Trethewey, one of our most important contemporary poets.
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Stranger Music
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrator: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.38(2469 ratings)
4.38(2469 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWith the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohen–already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist–was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminentWith the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohen–already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist–was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminent singer-songwriters of the time.
Over the years, and through the release of more than a dozen studio albums, Cohen gained a reputation as a dazzlingly literate and consistently daring songwriter. His status as a cult artist grew and solidified, not only in North America but all across Europe; singers of enormously diverse styles recorded his songs; his influence could be charted in every new wave of recording artists that followed his emergence. In 1988 the release of his album I’m Your Man thrust him back into the mainstream spotlight–his last three albums all hit the top twenty charts in the United States, and even after his death in 2016, fans continue to appreciate the musical legacy he left behind.
Now Stranger Music brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen’s song lyrics and poetry. Stranger Music reveals the range and depth of Cohen’s work. And it is a long-overdue celebration of his extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion, and timelessness.
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War Music
- By: Christopher Logue
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.37(540 ratings)
4.37(540 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention Picture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmeringUpwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. “Your life at every instant up for–A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention
Picture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmeringUpwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.
“Your life at every instant up for– / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips,” writes Christopher Logue in his original version of Homer’s Iliad, the uncanny “translation of translations” that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as “the best translation of Homer since Pope’s” (New York Review of Books).
Logue’s account of Homer’s Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer’s tale of warfare, human folly, and the power of the gods in language and verse that is emphatically modern and “possessed of a very terrible beauty” (Slate). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the Iliad to completion, but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes War Music, Kings, The Husbands, All Day Permanent Red, and Cold Calls, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid. The result, War Music, comes as near as possible to representing the poet’s complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that “Logue’s Homer is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth century” (Times Literary Supplement).
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Streams in the Desert
- By: L. B. E. Cowman
- Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: February 09, 2016
- Language: English
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4.37(11904 ratings)
4.37(11904 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDEveryone goes through difficult seasons, tough losses, and moments that feel unbearable. In today’s world, people thirst more than ever for reassurance and guidance. Streams in the Desert provides a river of wisdom, encouragement, andEveryone goes through difficult seasons, tough losses, and moments that feel unbearable. In today’s world, people thirst more than ever for reassurance and guidance. Streams in the Desert provides a river of wisdom, encouragement, and inspiration to weary travelers.
ABC’s Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts reads Streams in the Desert every day. Roberts said, “It’s my most prized possession‚Ķmy family, each of us has a copy and we read it every morning‚Ķit just brings us closer together.”
In this edition, you’ll find:
- 366 devotions that appeal to men and women of all ages
- A powerful collection of meditations, Christian writings, and Scripture
- Precise NIV text to help believers embrace timeless messages of God’s faithfulness
Streams in the Desert offers a refreshing daily dip into God’s purpose, plan, and enduring promise. The devotional is cherished amongst many generations.
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Nikki Giovanni: Love Poems & A Good Cry
- By: Nikki Giovanni
- Narrator: Nikki Giovanni
- Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 24, 2017
- Language: English
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4.37(125 ratings)
4.37(125 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has spoken out on the sensitive issues, includingThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has spoken out on the sensitive issues, including race and gender, that touch our national consciousness.
Love Poems: Nikki reads a stunning collection of over twenty romantic, bold, and erotic love poems, expressing notions of love in ways that are delightfully unexpected and full of fearless passion and spirited wit. From the revolutionary “Seduction” to the tender “Just a Simple Declaration of Love,” and the elegiac “All Eyez on U,” written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered.
A Good Cry: With her new collection Nikki offers listeners an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. Reading her work, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared.
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Crossfire
- By: Staceyann Chin
- Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 18, 2021
- Language: English
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4.37(191 ratings)
4.37(191 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDCrossfire collects Staceyann Chin’s empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is “sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.” TheCrossfire collects Staceyann Chin’s empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book.
According to The New York Times, Chin is “sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.” The Advocate says that her poems “combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform” and note “Chin is out to confront more than just the straight world.”
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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 20, 2018
- Language: English
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4.36(1434 ratings)
4.36(1434 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDOut of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration, inviting the viewer to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.
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