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.

“The Bean-Stalk” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday July 14, 2026

“A Field of Finches Without Sight Still Singing” by Grace Cavalieri

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday July 7, 2026

“Sure on This Shining Night”  by James Agee

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 30, 2026

“Hope” by Lisel Mueller

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 23, 2026

“Days of 1964” by James Merrill

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 16, 2026

“For Grace, After a Party” by Frank O’Hara

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 9, 2026

“On the Threshold” by Amy Levy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 2, 2026

“The Field of Waterloo” by Thomas Hardy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 26, 2026

“The Lambs Are Not for Sale” by Paula Bohince

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 19, 2026

“The Boy Died in My Alley” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 12, 2026

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