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.

“New Bones” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 4, 2025

“Halley’s Comet” by Stanley Kunitz

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 28, 2025

“Brennende Liebe” by Louise Glück

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 21, 2025

“The Rejected Member’s Wife” by Thomas Hardy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 14, 2025

“Of Light” by Agha Shahid Ali

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 7, 2025

“A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” by Wallace Stevens

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 30, 2025

“I Am Waiting” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 23, 2025

“Saint Francis and the Sow” by Galway Kinnell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 16, 2025
A brunette woman in 1920s attire looks directly at the camera

“Dear Possible” by Laura Riding

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 9, 2025

“If Money” by Kenneth Fearing

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 2, 2025

“New Bones” by Lucille Clifton

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 4, 2025

“Of Light” by Agha Shahid Ali

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 7, 2025
A brunette woman in 1920s attire looks directly at the camera

“Dear Possible” by Laura Riding

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 9, 2025

“If Money” by Kenneth Fearing

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 2, 2025

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