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.
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“I Want Both of Us” by Hafiz
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 12, 2023
A Selection from Station Island by Seamus Heaney
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 19, 2023
“How to Remember Heat” by Michelle Murphy
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 05, 2023
“A Poem for the Two of Us” by Mika Antic
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 29, 2023
“Waiting for Icarus” by Muriel Rukeyser
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 22, 2023
“The Silence” by C. K. Williams
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 15, 2023
“The Great Lover” by Rupert Brooke
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 08, 2023
“Upon Julia’s Clothes” by Robert Herrick
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 01, 2023
“I Am Learning to Abandon the World” by Linda Pastan
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 25, 2023
“The Night Alarm” by Veronika Tushnova
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 11, 2023
“When I Love You” by Nizar Qabbani
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 04, 2023
“En Route” by Adam Zagajewski
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 27, 2023
“Leap Minnows, Leap” by James Still
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 06, 2023
“Morning Swim” by Maxine Kumin
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 20, 2023
“The Portrait” by Stanley Kunitz
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 13, 2023
“Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 23, 2023
“Take Only What Is Most Important” by Serhiy Zhadan
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 02, 2023
“The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 09, 2023
“The Bluebird” by Charles Bukowski
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 25, 2023
“Seth Compton” by Edgar Lee Masters
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 18, 2023
“A Hand Not Ready for Birds” by Muhammed Ali Chamseddine
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 11, 2023
“The Flower-School” by Rabindranath Tagore
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 04, 2023
“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 28, 2023
“My Grandmother’s Love Letters” by Hart Crane
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 07, 2023
“The Dacca Gauzes” by Agha Shahid Ali
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 14, 2023
“The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 07, 2023
“Three O’Clock 1942” by Grace Cavalieri
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 21, 2023
“Black Mother Woman” by Audre Lorde
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 14, 2023
“The Hospital” by Patrick Kavanagh
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 28, 2023
“Not Only the Eskimos” by Lisel Mueller
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 21, 2023
“Recuerdo” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 31, 2023
“Postscript” by Seamus Heaney
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 24, 2023
“The Patience of Ordinary Things” by Pat Schneider
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 17, 2023
“The Illiterate” by William Meredith
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 10, 2023
“The Fig Tree” by Lasse Söderberg
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 03, 2023
“I cannot live with You” by Emily Dickinson
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 27, 2022
“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 20, 2022
“I Have So Often Dreamed of You” by Robert Desnos
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 13, 2022
“what the mirror said” by Lucille Clifton
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 06, 2022
“The Yellow Star That Goes With Me” by Jessica Greenbaum
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 04, 2022
“The Sadness of Clothes” by Emily Fragos
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 29, 2022
“We Lived Happily During the War” by Ilya Kaminsky
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 22, 2022
“For My People” by Margaret Walker
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 15, 2022
“The Glow of the Night Sky” by Jaan Kaplinski
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 08, 2022
“Under a Certain Little Star” by Wislawa Szymborska
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
“The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 01, 2022
“He Is Quiet and So Am I” by Mahmoud Darwish
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 25, 2022
“Plurality” by Louis MacNeice
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 18, 2022
“Unending Love” by Rabindranath Tagore
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 27, 2022
“Give Me Back My Rags” by Vasko Popa
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 20, 2022
“Talking in Bed” by Philip Larkin
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 13, 2022
“To Father” by Nini Lungalang
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 06, 2022
“The Singing Cat” by Stevie Smith
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 30, 2022
“Ich grolle nicht” by Heinrich Heine
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 23, 2022
“The Taxi” by Amy Lowell
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 09, 2022
“Work Is My Secret Lover” by Grace Cavalieri
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 02, 2022
“Harriet in the Promised Land” by Sam Cornish
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 19, 2022
A Very Specific Excerpt from “Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 05, 2022
“nobody but you” by Charles Bukowski
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 28, 2022
“An Introduction” by Kamala Das
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 12, 2022
“She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep” by Robert Graves
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 21, 2022
“In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.” by June Jordan
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 14, 2022
“Birth of the Foal” by Ferenc Juhasz
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 07, 2022
“I Love to See the Summer Beaming Forth” by John Clare
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 31, 2022
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 17, 2022
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 10, 2022
“In Country Sleep” by Dylan Thomas
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 03, 2022
“Nevertheless” by Marianne Moore
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 26, 2022
“Soldiers Aim at Us” by Ilya Kaminsky
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 29, 2022
“The Color Blue” by Boris Pasternak
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 19, 2022
“The Love I Gave You Once” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 12, 2022
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 05, 2022
“The Listeners” by Walter de La Mare
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 31, 2019
“Kisses” by Gabriela Mistral
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 22, 2022
“The Rumination of Rivers” by William Bronk
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 08, 2022
“Nothing Twice” by Wislawa Szymborska
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 15, 2022
“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 01, 2022
“At the American Express Office” by Edith Bruck
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 22, 2022
“Touch Me” by Stanley Kunitz
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 15, 2022
“Love After Love” by Derek Walcott
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 08, 2022
“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 01, 2022
“Sometimes, Oh, Often, Indeed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 25, 2022
“A Litany of Survival” by Audre Lorde
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 18, 2022
“Winter Scene” by A. R. Ammons
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 11, 2022
“No One Has Taken Anything Away” by Marina Tsvetaeva
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 04, 2022
“Vultures” by Chinua Achebe
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 28, 2021
“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 21, 2021
“Walking Away” by Cecil Day Lewis
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 14, 2021
“A Song” by Joseph Brodsky
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 07, 2021
“Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 23, 2021
“Farewell” by Agha Shahid Ali
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 30, 2021
“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 16, 2021
“Salutation to the Dawn” by Kalidasa
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 09, 2021
“The Quarrel” by Katherine Mansfield
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 02, 2021
“Abduction” by Saadi Youssef
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 05, 2021
“A Woman Speaks” by Audre Lorde
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 31, 2021
“There’s a Moon Inside My Body” by Kabir
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 26, 2021
“When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 19, 2021
“On Living” by Nâzim Hikmet
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 12, 2021
“The Lightkeeper” by Carolyn Forché
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 28, 2021
“The child (who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga)” by Ingrid Jonker
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 21, 2021
“My Philosophy of Life” by John Ashbery
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 14, 2021
“The Day Is Done” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 07, 2021
“Lake Echo, Dear” by C. D. Wright
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 24, 2021
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 17, 2021
“The Uninvited” by Dannie Abse
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 10, 2021
“Sonnet: Grief Dies” by Henry Timrod
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 03, 2021
“Remember” by Christina Rossetti
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 27, 2021
“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 20, 2021
“If China” by Stanislaw Baranczak
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 06, 2021
“The Innocence of Solomon” by Nick Joaquin
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 29, 2021
“On the Birth of a Son” by Su Tung-Po
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 22, 2021
“Letter to the Front” by Muriel Rukeyser
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 15, 2021
“Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words” by Mahmoud Darwish
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 08, 2021
“Sunflower Sutra” by Allen Ginsberg
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 01, 2021
“A Ritual to Read to Each Other” by William Stafford
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 25, 2021
“The Wind Will Blow Us Away” by Forugh Farrokhzad
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 04, 2021
“cutting greens” by Lucille Clifton
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 18, 2021
“The Haunted Beach” by Mary Robinson
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 11, 2021
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“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by E. E. Cummings
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 27, 2021
“Song of the Rain” by Kahlil Gibran
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 20, 2021
“Everyone Sang” by Siegfried Sassoon
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 13, 2021
“A Letter” by Amrita Pritam
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 06, 2021
“Home Burial” by Robert Frost
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 23, 2021
“Who Is This” by Rabindranath Tagore
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 30, 2021
“Tarantella” by Hilaire Belloc
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 16, 2021
“Palindrome” by Lisel Mueller
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 09, 2021
“Stanzas” by Emily Brontë
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 02, 2021
“The Guest House” by Rumi
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 23, 2021
“Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 16, 2021
“Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Szymborska
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 09, 2021
“Miniature Snowstorm” by Rosamund Stanhope
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 02, 2021
“Tonight I Can Write (the Saddest Lines)” by Pablo Neruda
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 26, 2021
“You, Andrew Marvell” by Archibald MacLeish
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 19, 2021
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 12, 2021
“A Prison Evening” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 05, 2021
“Lights Out” by Edward Thomas
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 29, 2020
“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 22, 2020
“A Bird, came down the Walk” by Emily Dickinson
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 15, 2020
“Pangur Bán” by Anonymous
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 24, 2020
“Sonnet 14” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 08, 2020
“Wait” by Galway Kinnell
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 01, 2020
“The Swan” by Mary Oliver
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
“Neutral Tones” by Thomas Hardy
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 03, 2020
“Wind-Up Doll” by Forugh Farrokhzad
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 27, 2020
“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 20, 2020
“Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W. B. Yeats
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 13, 2020
“Burnt Norton” by T. S. Eliot
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 29, 2020
“Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.” by Nissim Ezekiel
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 22, 2020
“I Sit and Sew” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 15, 2020
“The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car” by Dorothea Grossman
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 08, 2020
“The Canonization” by John Donne
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 01, 2020
“Let Me Begin Again” by Philip Levine
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 18, 2020
“Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 11, 2020
“The Quartz Pebble” by Vasko Popa
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, August 04, 2020
“A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 28, 2020
“To the Young Who Want to Die” by Gwendolyn Brooks
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 21, 2020
“O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 14, 2020
“Land That I Love: Farewell” by José Rizal
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 07, 2020
“Halfway Down” by A. A. Milne
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 30, 2020
“Convolvulus” by Helen Dunmore
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 23, 2020
“Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 16, 2020
“Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 09, 2020
“Eros Turannos” by Edwin Arlington Robinson
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 02, 2020
“Summer in Calcutta” by Kamala Das
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 26, 2020
“The Trees” by Philip Larkin
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 19, 2020
“If You Forget Me” by Pablo Neruda
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 12, 2020
“Postcard from Kashmir” by Agha Shahid Ali
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 05, 2020
“The Courage Of Shutting-Up” by Sylvia Plath
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 28, 2020
“Because It’s Good to Keep Things Straight” by Kenneth Patchen
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 14, 2020
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 07, 2020
“Driving Glove” by Claudia Emerson
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 31, 2020
“the lost baby poem” by Lucille Clifton
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 24, 2020
“Poetry, a Natural Thing” by Robert Duncan
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 17, 2020
“The Hard Question” by W. H. Auden
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 10, 2020
“Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich
A knife, a camera, a book of myths
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 03, 2020
“Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 25, 2020
“Birches” by Robert Frost
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 18, 2020
“I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 14, 2020
“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 07, 2020
“Forgotten As If You Never Were” by Mahmoud Darwish
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 24, 2019
“Love Poem” by Audre Lorde
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 11, 2020
“The Gravel Walks” by Seamus Heaney
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 04, 2020
“Advice to a Girl” by Sara Teasdale
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 28, 2020
“miss rosie” by Lucille Clifton
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 21, 2020
“Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School” by Jane Kenyon
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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 17, 2019
An Excerpt from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
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by Amanda Holmes | Monday, December 09, 2019
“My November Guest” by Robert Frost
by Amanda Holmes | Monday, November 25, 2019
“Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski
“A poem of this caliber needs a revitalization”
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 15, 2019
“Dungeon” by Rabindranath Tagore
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 08, 2019
“November Rain” by Jaroslav Seifert
For All Saints’ Day
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 01, 2019
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“[hist whist]” by E. E. Cummings
For the little ghosties and ghoulies on Halloween
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 25, 2019
“The Life Beyond” by Rupert Brooke
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 18, 2019
“The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 11, 2019
“Lines to a Nasturtium” by Anne Spencer
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 04, 2019
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot
In honor of the poet’s 131st birthday
by Amanda Holmes | Thursday, September 26, 2019
“The Purist” by Ogden Nash
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, September 20, 2019
“Any Case” by Wislawa Szymborska
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, September 06, 2019
“Elderly Tears” by Leonardo Sinisgalli
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, August 30, 2019
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, August 23, 2019
“I Remember” by Stevie Smith
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, August 16, 2019
“Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, August 09, 2019
“227 (my darling since)” by E. E. Cummings
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, August 02, 2019
“60 yard pass” by Charles Bukowski
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, July 26, 2019
“An Essay on Man: Epistle 1” by Alexander Pope
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, July 19, 2019
“The Makers” by Howard Nemerov
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, July 12, 2019
“Our Casuarina Tree” by Toru Dutt
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, July 05, 2019
“Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman” by Anne Sexton
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 28, 2019
“Bessie Coleman Falling from the Sky” by Dolores Kendrick
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 21, 2019
An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s Prelude
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 14, 2019
“The Troubles of a Book” by Laura Riding
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 07, 2019
“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, May 31, 2019
“To a Poor Old Woman” by William Carlos Williams
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, May 17, 2019
“The Ups and Downs of the Elevator Car” by Caroline D. Emerson
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, May 10, 2019
“Well, I have lost you” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 26, 2019
“I Am Not I” by Juan Ramón Jiménez
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 19, 2019
“Gus: the Theatre Cat” by T. S. Eliot
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 05, 2019
“Bessie Dreaming Bear” by Marnie Walsh
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, March 29, 2019
“To the Insects” by W. S. Merwin
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, March 22, 2019
“Sonnet XVII” by Pablo Neruda
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, March 15, 2019
“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, March 08, 2019
“Crossing the Bar ” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, March 01, 2019
“Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, February 22, 2019
“I shall forget you presently, my dear” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, February 15, 2019
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, February 01, 2019
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, January 25, 2019
“Fever 103” by Sylvia Plath
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, January 18, 2019
“Lot’s Wife” by Anna Akhmatova
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, January 11, 2019
“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, January 04, 2019
“The Planet on the Table” by Wallace Stevens
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, December 28, 2018
“The King’s Breakfast” by A. A. Milne
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, December 21, 2018
“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 02, 2018
“To Be in Love” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, December 14, 2018
“Church Going” by Philip Larkin
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, December 07, 2018
“The Sheep Child” by James Dickey
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 26, 2018
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 09, 2018
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear
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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 16, 2018
“The Waking” by Theodore Roethke
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 19, 2018
“The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 12, 2018
“Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 05, 2018
“Poetry” by Marianne Moore
Listen to the inaugural entry in our new series of poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Thursday, September 27, 2018
