This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....

Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity....

The Iliad. Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and...

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language....

On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special audiobook....

Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognizable and celebrated themes....

An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, usually set in a time beyond living memory in which the extraordinary ancestors gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants, the poet, and his audience in order to understand themselves as a people....

In this stunning spoken word performance, Lana Del Rey reads 14 poems from her debut book Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff....

World-famous 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer. It was originally published in 1923. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages....

Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. The world may know him as Aeneas, star of the biggest show on television, but fanfiction readers call him something else: Book!AeneasWouldNever. Marcus gets out his frustrations with the show....

The Strength in Our Scars tackles the gut-wrenching but relatable experiences of moving on, self-love, and ultimately learning to heal. In this book you will find peace, you will find a rock, you will find understanding, and you will find hope....

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, and poems in this collection - from beloved authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more - detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future. 

10 Short Poems to Bless the Soul: In Times like These is a compilation of meditations and sentiments of the heart from a spiritual Christian perspective. These short poems with images and commentary reflect the issues of our lives that we can all relate to, especially as touching feelings and emotions during this season of COVID-19. There is a blessing inside this book when we turn our focus back to God.

Shadows and Roses is an anthology of poems written during the first half of 2020 by Adam Prockstem Smith. These short poems reflect the soul and the moodiness of the author, but what is in it for you? You might ask. Well, the language and self-expression will allow you to relate and at times find answers and expression of your feelings. Each one of us tries his/her best to be understood, and Adam has well perfected the art of self-expression even in the most meticulous of topics. In this audiobook, you may find poems about love, hatred, self-search, and even the nature.

Deep Darkness is a compilation of poems written when the author was engaging in a spiritual self-searching. The poems may be at times profound and at times dark, but they all are just a matter of self-expression. The listener may find them beautiful, well-composed, or the opposite, but the author tends to think he has done a good job picturing different states of mind within the human realm. 

Some people are like monarch butterflies - solitary by nature, on a passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews presents her first poetry collection.

The book has 100 poems about everything that might catch an eye or stream of thoughts of a musketeer. Any warrior has his spirit, mind, and heart aligned together. Writing with a pen is similar to fencing; it is a continuation of a greater self that is connected to the great flow. Rapier is a weapon of musketeer; quill is a weapon of an artist. Enjoy these hundred kills in the name of the great flow, the great void, the nothing, and the all.