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.

“My Possessions” by Charles Simic

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 19, 2024

“The Sick Wife” by Jane Kenyon

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 12, 2024

“Snow” by David Berman

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, March 05, 2024

“I Want to Write” by Margaret Walker

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 27, 2024

“Someone” by Dennis O’Driscoll

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 20, 2024

“Poem about My Rights” by June Jordan

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 13, 2024

“To a Milkmaid” by Carolyn Wells

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 06, 2024

“The Hill-Shade” by William Barnes

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 30, 2024

“The Earth is Closing on Us” by Mahmoud Darwish

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 23, 2024

“The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 12, 2023

“Stages” by Hermann Hesse

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 02, 2024

“Justice Denied in Massachusetts” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 16, 2024

“Eurydice” by Linda Gregg

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 09, 2024

“Envoy” by Robert Louis Stevenson

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 26, 2023

“The Mist on the Mountain” by Loren Eiseley

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Selections from Hafiz’s Little Book of Life

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 05, 2023

“Ox Cart Man” by Donald Hall

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“I Explain a Few Things” by Pablo Neruda

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 07, 2023

“Her Kind” by Anne Sexton

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 31, 2023

“Winter Creek” by Jim Harrison

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 21, 2023

“My Story in a Late Style of Fire” by Larry Levis

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 14, 2023

“Consolation” by Wisława Szymborska

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 24, 2023

“The Watcher” by Rainer Maria Rilke

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 10, 2023

“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 17, 2023

“I Want Both of Us” by Hafiz

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“In My Desire to Be Nude” by José Garcia Villa

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“Lullaby” by May Sarton

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A Selection from Station Island by Seamus Heaney

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“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

“Sea Rose” by H. D.

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 18, 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

“Huswifery” by Edward Taylor

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 30, 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 Call” by Charlotte Mew

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 16, 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

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“Work Is My Secret Lover” by Grace Cavalieri

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“I, Lover” by Elsa Gidlow

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 26, 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

“Adlestrop” by Edward Thomas

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, May 24, 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

“To Licinius” by Horace

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, July 13, 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

“[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

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“Stanzas” by Emily Brontë

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“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

“Messiah” by Gulzar

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 17, 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

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“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

“Nod” by Walter de la Mare

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by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, April 21, 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

“[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

“Aubade” by Philip Larkin

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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, May 03, 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

“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes

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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 12, 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

“The Flea” by John Donne

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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, February 08, 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 Pool” by H. D.

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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 30, 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

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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 19, 2018

“The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats

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by Amanda Holmes | Friday, October 12, 2018

“Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith

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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