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.

An Excerpt from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Monday December 9, 2019

“Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski

“A poem of this caliber needs a revitalization”

By Amanda Holmes | Friday November 15, 2019

“Dungeon” by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday November 8, 2019

“November Rain” by Jaroslav Seifert

For All Saints’ Day

By Amanda Holmes | Friday November 1, 2019

“[hist whist]” by E. E. Cummings

For the little ghosties and ghoulies on Halloween

By Amanda Holmes | Friday October 25, 2019

“The Life Beyond” by Rupert Brooke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday October 18, 2019

“The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday October 11, 2019

“Lines to a Nasturtium” by Anne Spencer

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday October 4, 2019

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot

In honor of the poet’s 131st birthday

By Amanda Holmes | Thursday September 26, 2019

“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 17, 2024

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 10, 2024

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 19, 2024

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