Task #8: Read an audiobook of poetry

[Arohtar]

I want to echo other recommendations for The Poet X. It's a novel-in-verse, so it feels as much a complete story as it does poetry. The author, Elizabeth Acevedo, is an acclaimed slam poet and voices the audiobook.

[Erin]

I’d highly recommend Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire. Very powerful, and I think I got even more from listening to it read by the author than if I’d just read it myself.

[Tammy]

I'm still deciding on my book for this, so I went through and updated the GR list for this task. I think it now has most of the books recommended in this discussion: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Libro.fm also has a list here: https://libro.fm/bestsellers/poetry

[Laura]

Thank you Catie for your suggestion of Wade in the Water by Tracy K Smith. I think I’m going to enjoy it.

[Westiegirl]

I read SHOUT. It was unique and engaging.

[Virginia]

I had a physical copy of Brown Girl Dreaming but heard the audio was good so I got it through a library app.

[Tammy]

This is my last task. I tried to do it earlier, but realized that it would be better for me to have the poems to look at while also listening. The library didn't have a hard copy of A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib, but they do have the audiobook. I decided to just buy the physical copy. I am enjoying the experience. It helps that the author (in the audiobook only) tells the backstory of some of his poems.

[Tamsin]

I listened to Ada Limon - The Carrying. And enjoyed it so much, I listened to it again.