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 Hard Question” by W. H. Auden

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 10, 2020

“Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich

A knife, a camera, a book of myths

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 3, 2020

“Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 25, 2020

“Birches” by Robert Frost

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 18, 2020

“Love Poem” by Audre Lorde

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 11, 2020

“The Gravel Walks” by Seamus Heaney

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 4, 2020

“Advice to a Girl” by Sara Teasdale

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 28, 2020

“miss rosie” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 21, 2020

“I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 14, 2020

“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 7, 2020

“The Return” by Philip Levine

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 14, 2026

“Personal” by Tony Hoagland

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 31, 2026

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