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.

“Forgotten As If You Never Were” by Mahmoud Darwish

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 24, 2019

“Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 17, 2019

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

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 25, 2025

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 7, 2025

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