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.

“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 Uninvited” by Dannie Abse

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 10, 2021

“Sonnet: Grief Dies” by Henry Timrod

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 3, 2021

“Psalm 102” by Mary Sidney Herbert

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 29, 2026

“Ithaka” by C. P. Cavafy

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 8, 2026

“The Giver” by James Baldwin

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 25, 2026

“Homecoming” by Henry Sloss

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 11, 2026

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