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The Best Poetry Audiobooks to Listen to for National Poetry Month

The Best Poetry Audiobooks to Listen to for National Poetry Month

There is no perhaps no better time for National Poetry Month than April. In the early days of spring with the weather getting warmer and the sun shining brighter, it feels appropriate to engage with art that mimics the changing of the seasons. With movement crafted from meter and rhyme, poetry—whether it be narrative or lyrical, classic or contemporary—shares that very fluidity and the hope of what's to come.

It’s a common turn of phrase that poetry is meant to be heard. Tone, pauses, cadence, and vocal inflections all serve to further the emotional pull of modern and historical poetic masterpieces. In audio, poems can be heard and enjoyed just as the poet meant them to be. Taking into account not only the words themselves but the way they are spoken, our list provides an overarching look at the power behind a poem, celebrating those works which have touched our souls and stood the test of time and current voices who have already made their mark.

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Time Is a Mother
The Poems of T. S. Eliot
Olio Live
At Blackwater Pond
Heart Talk
An American Sunrise
Milk and Honey
Leaves of Grass
And Still I Rise (Unabridged Selections)
Every Word You Cannot Say
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
A Fortune for Your Disaster
The Essential Neruda
I Would Leave Me If I Could.
Classic Love Poems
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
If My Body Could Speak
The Selected Poems of Li Po
Helium
The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
Call Us What We Carry

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