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.

“The Girl in the Ray of Darkness” by Natan Yonatan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 19, 2025

“Hitler’s First Photograph” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 12, 2025

[…] by Fady Joudah

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday August 5, 2025

“Ornithology” by Lynda Hull

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday July 29, 2025

“Lament” by Thom Gunn

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday July 22, 2025

“Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher” by Barbara Guest

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday July 15, 2025

“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday July 8, 2025

“The Fig Tree” by Ruth Stone

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday July 1, 2025

Verse 31 from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 24, 2025

“Absence” by Elizabeth Jennings

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 23, 2025

“Was He Married?” by Stevie Smith

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 16, 2025

“The Little Boat” by Jane Kenyon

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 9, 2025
Robert Lowell at the Grolier Bookshop in Harvard Square in 1965 (Elsa Dorfman)

“Epilogue” by Robert Lowell

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 2, 2025

“Leda and the Swan” by W. B. Yeats

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 25, 2025

From Midsummer by Derek Walcott

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 18, 2025

“Soap Suds” by Louis MacNeice

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 11, 2025

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