Amanda Holmes

Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is a columnist and poetry editor for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

“To Lallie (Outside the British Museum)” by Amy Levy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 13, 2026

“Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh” by Thomas James

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 6, 2026

“Psalm 102” by Mary Sidney Herbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 29, 2026

 “Cubistic Body World”  by Carolyn Rodgers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 22, 2026

“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St Vincent Millay

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 15, 2026

“Ithaka” by C. P. Cavafy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 8, 2026

“Everybody Who Is Dead” by Frank Stanford

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 1, 2026

“The Giver” by James Baldwin

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 25, 2026

“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 18, 2026

“Homecoming” by Henry Sloss

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 11, 2026

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