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.

“There’s a Moon Inside My Body” by Kabir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 26, 2021

“When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 19, 2021

“On Living” by Nâzim Hikmet

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 12, 2021

“Abduction” by Saadi Youssef

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 5, 2021

“The Lightkeeper” by Carolyn Forché

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 28, 2021

“The child (who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga)” by Ingrid Jonker

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 21, 2021

“My Philosophy of Life” by John Ashbery

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 14, 2021

“The Day Is Done” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 7, 2021

“A Woman Speaks” by Audre Lorde

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 31, 2021

“Lake Echo, Dear” by C. D. Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 24, 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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