Well-Versed: Celebrate National Poetry Month with Audiobooks
April 1, 2022
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On the Podcast: Robin Coste Lewis, Philip Williams, and Elisabet Velasquez
September 24, 2021
In this episode, meet poets Robin Coste Lewis, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus, Phillip B. Williams, author of Mutiny, and Elisabet Velasquez, author of When We Make It. Step into the recording booth and learn how these authors’ books of poetry and a novel-in-verse came to be. READ MORE
On the Podcast: Adrian Matejka, Pik-Shuen Fung, and David Searcy
August 3, 2021
In this episode, meet poet Adrian Matejka, author of Somebody Else Sold the World, artist Pik-Shuen Fung, author of Ghost Forest, and writer David Searcy, author of The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the World. READ MORE
Poetry Month Listens that Bring It
April 6, 2021
This April marks the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month! Started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Month reminds us that poetry is alive—and available to everyone. READ MORE
Well-Versed: Poetry Month Listens for Teens
April 5, 2021
April is National Poetry Month! We’re celebrating poets and their craft with audiobooks-in-verse and poetry collections that beautifully capture feelings about identity, love, and growth. Budding young wordsmiths, prepare to be inspired: READ MORE
7 Listens to Celebrate National Poetry Month
April 16, 2020
There’s no time like the present to hone your lyrical chops and listen to a poetry collection on audio. READ MORE
Essential Listening for National Poetry Month
April 4, 2018
National Poetry Month was first celebrated in 1996. Since then, April has been a month to absorb, share, and celebrate poets and their words. Listen to one of these lyrical collections of poetry this month: READ MORE
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth: At Home in Displacement
May 2, 2017
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire’s debut poetry collection, deals mightily in contradictions. READ MORE
Celebrate National Poetry Month with These 6 Audiobooks
April 17, 2017
National Poetry Month was first celebrated in 1996. Since then, April has been a month to absorb, share, and celebrate poets and their words. Begin your month of poetry with one of these lyrical, diverse audiobooks: READ MORE
Hear a Typewriter Series Poem for Poetry Month!
April 4, 2017
Photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything. Three years and almost one thousand poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter Series: a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method. Listen to him read one of his poems from his book, Chasers of the Light.