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.

“No One Has Taken Anything Away” by Marina Tsvetaeva

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 4, 2022

“Vultures” by Chinua Achebe

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 28, 2021

“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 21, 2021

“Walking Away” by Cecil Day Lewis

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 14, 2021

“A Song” by Joseph Brodsky

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 7, 2021

“Farewell” by Agha Shahid Ali

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 30, 2021

“Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 23, 2021

“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 16, 2021

“Salutation to the Dawn” by Kalidasa

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 9, 2021

“The Quarrel” by Katherine Mansfield

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 2, 2021

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 7, 2025

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 31, 2024

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 24, 2024

“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 17, 2024

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 10, 2024

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