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.

“i thank You God for most this amazing day” by E. E. Cummings

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 6, 2026

“Poem III” from Twenty-One Love Poems by Adrienne Rich

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 30, 2025

“Absence” by Elizabeth Jennings

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 23, 2025

“Was He Married?” by Stevie Smith

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 16, 2025

“The Little Boat” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 9, 2025
Robert Lowell at the Grolier Bookshop in Harvard Square in 1965 (Elsa Dorfman)

“Epilogue” by Robert Lowell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 2, 2025

“Leda and the Swan” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 25, 2025

From Midsummer by Derek Walcott

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 18, 2025

“Soap Suds” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 11, 2025

“New Bones” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 4, 2025

“Curtains” by Ruth Stone

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 17, 2026

“Maritime Poem” by Nizar Qabbani

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 20, 2026

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