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.

“Pangur Bán” by Anonymous

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 24, 2020

“Messiah” by Gulzar

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 17, 2020

“The Swan” by Mary Oliver

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 10, 2020

“Neutral Tones” by Thomas Hardy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 3, 2020

“Wind-Up Doll” by Forugh Farrokhzad

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 27, 2020

“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 20, 2020

“Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 13, 2020

“Burnt Norton” by T. S. Eliot

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 29, 2020

“I Sit and Sew” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 15, 2020

“The Return” by Philip Levine

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 14, 2026

“Personal” by Tony Hoagland

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 31, 2026

“Curtains” by Ruth Stone

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 17, 2026

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