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.

“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 7, 2020

“Driving Glove” by Claudia Emerson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 31, 2020

“the lost baby poem” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 24, 2020

“Poetry, a Natural Thing” by Robert Duncan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 17, 2020

“The Hard Question” by W. H. Auden

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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 3, 2020

“Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 25, 2020

“Birches” by Robert Frost

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 18, 2020

“Love Poem” by Audre Lorde

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 11, 2020

“The Gravel Walks” by Seamus Heaney

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 4, 2020

“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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