Bestsellers
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Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
- Poems
- By: Misha Collins
- Narrated by: Misha Collins
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys....
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Love, Life and Garbage Trucks
- By Susan T Vigilante on 12-07-23
By: Misha Collins
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My Childhood in Pieces
- A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
- By: Edward Hirsch
- Narrated by: Edward Hirsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age.
By: Edward Hirsch
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Beautiful Chaos
- On Motherhood, Finding Yourself, and Overwhelming Love
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood—capturing everything from pregnancy to school age.
By: Jessica Urlichs
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Water, Water
- Poems
- By: Billy Collins
- Narrated by: Billy Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life.
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Billy Collins is charming witty and somewhat irreverent.
- By Kathryn Grammer on 04-18-25
By: Billy Collins
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The Hurting Kind
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón....
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The Beauty of her insights
- By Tom on 07-30-24
By: Ada Limón
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The Carrying
- Poems
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....
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The Calm, Serene Tone of Her Voice
- By Tom on 05-31-24
By: Ada Limón
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Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
- Poems
- By: Misha Collins
- Narrated by: Misha Collins
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys....
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Love, Life and Garbage Trucks
- By Susan T Vigilante on 12-07-23
By: Misha Collins
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My Childhood in Pieces
- A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
- By: Edward Hirsch
- Narrated by: Edward Hirsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age.
By: Edward Hirsch
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Beautiful Chaos
- On Motherhood, Finding Yourself, and Overwhelming Love
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood—capturing everything from pregnancy to school age.
By: Jessica Urlichs
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Water, Water
- Poems
- By: Billy Collins
- Narrated by: Billy Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life.
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Billy Collins is charming witty and somewhat irreverent.
- By Kathryn Grammer on 04-18-25
By: Billy Collins
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The Hurting Kind
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón....
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The Beauty of her insights
- By Tom on 07-30-24
By: Ada Limón
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The Carrying
- Poems
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....
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The Calm, Serene Tone of Her Voice
- By Tom on 05-31-24
By: Ada Limón
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other
- A Poetry Unbound Collection
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing the ways we relate to each other, the world around us, and ourselves.
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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I'll Fly Away
- By: Rudy Francisco
- Narrated by: Rudy Francisco
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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you can feel his raw emotion
- By Ken on 06-03-25
By: Rudy Francisco
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Billy Collins Live
- A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 2005
- By: Billy Collins
- Narrated by: Billy Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading....
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Does Not Get Better Than This
- By Mel on 09-27-10
By: Billy Collins
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Why Fathers Cry at Night
- A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with....
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Loved it.
- By Tonja on 06-01-23
By: Kwame Alexander
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Self Love Poetry
- For Thinkers & Feelers
- By: Melody Godfred
- Narrated by: Melody Godfred
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Melody Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme....
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deep
- By Araceli on 04-17-24
By: Melody Godfred
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Death by Living
- Life Is Meant to Be Spent
- By: N. D. Wilson
- Narrated by: N. D. Wilson
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A poetic portrait of faith, futility, and the joy of this mortal life. In this astoundingly unique audiobook, best-selling author N. D. Wilson reminds each of us that to truly live, we must recognize that we are dying....
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Phenomenal non-fiction narrative!
- By Cedarland on 07-05-20
By: N. D. Wilson
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Goldenrod
- Poems
- By: Maggie Smith
- Narrated by: Maggie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory....
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Powerful Collection
- By BookishMarginalia on 07-28-21
By: Maggie Smith
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I Love Hearing Your Dreams
- Poems
- By: Matthew Zapruder
- Narrated by: Matthew Zapruder
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of contemporary poetry's most playful and original minds, an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century disillusions.
By: Matthew Zapruder
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And Yet
- Poems
- By: Kate Baer
- Narrated by: Kate Baer
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman....
By: Kate Baer
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A Peculiar People
- By: Steven Willis
- Narrated by: Steven Willis
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis crafts an entire cast of characters, showcasing their struggles, identities, & underlying emotions....
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Found myself hanging on to each word
- By Michele Golombek Cook on 01-25-23
By: Steven Willis
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The Only Worlds We Know
- By: Michael Lee
- Narrated by: Michael Lee
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Only Worlds We Know is a nuanced and tactile look at both sobriety and what comes after. Patient meditations on loss and the land where the people we love live and are also buried....
By: Michael Lee
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Made of Rivers
- By: Emory Hall
- Narrated by: Emory Hall
- Length: 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Emory Hall’s debut poetry collection follows the anatomy of a river, swelling with loss and grief, and dances with the sacred waters of transformation and motherhood.
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Ernest. Poignant.
- By Joan Thomas on 03-20-25
By: Emory Hall
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- Poems
- By: Warsan Shire
- Narrated by: Warsan Shire
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood....
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The poems
- By Anne on 04-02-25
By: Warsan Shire
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When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance
- Poems
- By: Joan Baez
- Narrated by: Joan Baez
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Legendary artist and activist Joan Baez shares an intimate, autobiographical poetry collection, revealing pivotal life experiences that shaped an icon.
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A Window Into the Mind of Joan Baez
- By Jane Massengill on 04-01-25
By: Joan Baez
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The Prophet
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published...
By: Kahlil Gibran
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I Love You, Call Me Back
- Poems
- By: Sabrina Benaim
- Narrated by: Sabrina Benaim
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a collection exploring loneliness, anxiety, and longing - and finding peace, and even joy, in unexpected places....
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Amazing
- By Bobbie on 03-20-23
By: Sabrina Benaim
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Promises of Gold
- By: José Olivarez, David Ruano
- Narrated by: José Olivarez
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on....
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I laughed thru my tears and cried thru my laughter
- By NG on 04-27-23
By: José Olivarez, and others
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Becoming Ghost
- Poetry
- By: Cathy Linh Che
- Narrated by: Cathy Linh Che
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
By: Cathy Linh Che
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Life, Love and Loss
- Poems for Every Hurdle on Life’s Highway
- By: Donna Ashworth
- Narrated by: Donna Ashworth
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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After the bestselling I Wish I Knew, Donna Ashworth has now produced an extraordinary three-volume collection of poems that will touch and inspire every listener in the ups and downs we all face in love, in life and in loss....
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amazing
- By Judy Von Zuben aka Reaper's Kitchen on 08-30-24
By: Donna Ashworth
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How to Maintain Eye Contact
- By: Robert Wood Lynn
- Narrated by: Robert Wood Lynn
- Length: 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncertainty, interpersonal uncertainty and uncertainty at a larger scale....
By: Robert Wood Lynn
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Date & Time
- By: Phil Kaye
- Narrated by: Phil Kaye
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Phil Kaye’s debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and celebrations of the passing of time, as jagged as it may be. Kaye takes the listener on a journey from a complex but iridescent childhood, drawing them into adolescence, and on to adulthood....
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Beautiful and Affirming
- By Krista E Stokes on 11-08-20
By: Phil Kaye
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Room Swept Home
- By: Remica Bingham-Risher
- Narrated by: Remica Bingham-Risher
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Braiding meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection of poems treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, and women's rights....
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Perfection
- By Amazon Customer on 03-19-24
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Poukahangatus
- Poems
- By: Tayi Tibble
- Narrated by: Tayi Tibble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation....
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It was not well written
- By Rita Marie on 08-19-24
By: Tayi Tibble
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Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
- American Poets Continuum Series, Book 194
- By: Chen Chen, Ilya Kaminsky - translator
- Narrated by: Chen Chen
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Great Collection
- By Andre on 05-10-24
By: Chen Chen, and others