Social Poetry

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    • Poems
    • By: William Blake
    • Narrated by: Nicol Williamson
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • William Blake's highly personal messages of humanity and social conscience are as relevant today as in 18th-century London....

    Regular price: $6.62

    • By: Maggie Nelson
    • Narrated by: Maggie Nelson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers and listeners with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human - via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical and philosophical, on the color blue....

    Regular price: $10.47

    • 25 Years of Prison Writing
    • By: Bell Gale Chevigny - editor
    • Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Shay Moore
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • An American Lyric
    • By: Claudia Rankine
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • By: Kwame Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Series: The Crossover [Alexander], Book 0
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander comes Rebound, the dynamic prequel to his Newbery Award-winning novel in verse, The Crossover....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • By: Ellie Terry
    • Narrated by: Heather Costa, Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • By: Bertrand Russell
    • Narrated by: Peter Bishop
    • Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Russell sets forth the idea that political ideals must be based upon the ideals that best benefit the individual to create the best life possible....

    Regular price: $6.86

    • By: Eve L. Ewing
    • Narrated by: Eve L. Ewing
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event....

    Regular price: $7.73

    • 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
    • By: Kwame Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • A companion book to his best-selling and Newbery winning book The Crossover, The Playbook is Kwame Alexander's dynamic, sports-infused guide to life....

    Regular price: $7.73

    • The Greek Myths Reimagined
    • By: Stephen Fry
    • Narrated by: Stephen Fry
    • Series: Mythos, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,271 ratings
    • In this brilliant conclusion to his best-selling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War....

    Regular price: $24.29

    • Essays
    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 595 ratings
    • Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • By: Karma Wilson
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Series: The Bear Books
    • Length: 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • What better way for Bear to say thanks, than to have a big dinner with all his friends! Bear has come up with the perfect way to say thanks - a nice big dinner....

    Regular price: $6.87

    • By: Katherine Applegate
    • Narrated by: Imani Parks
    • Series: One and Only Ivan, Book 3
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • From beloved powerhouse author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Ruby, starring the adorable baby elephant from the Newbery Medal-winning modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its bestselling sequel, The One and Only Bob....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • By: Lisa Fipps
    • Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules - like "no making waves", "avoid eating in public," and "don't move so fast that your body jiggles"....

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    • By: Renee Drummond-Brown
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Haiku Anyone? Poetry Book, by author Reneé Drummond-Brown, covers natural occurrences in nature, animals and moments in time. Some common themes ...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • Walden, Self-Reliance, Leaves of Grass, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking and Nature: Exemplary Collection of Essays and Poems
    • By: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, CSA Publishing
    • Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato
    • Length: 21 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Transcendentalism embodies the concept that people have a deeper and more profound understanding of the world around them than simply by what they can glimpse with their senses....

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    • By: Apollonios of Rhodes
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Often compared with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Jason and the Argonauts is the only surviving poem from the Hellenistic period and was hugely influential on later literature, especially the Roman poetry of Virgil and Ovid....

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