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 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

“Lines to a Nasturtium” by Anne Spencer

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday October 4, 2019

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot

In honor of the poet’s 131st birthday

By Amanda Holmes | Thursday September 26, 2019

“The Purist” by Ogden Nash

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday September 20, 2019

“Any Case” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday September 6, 2019

“Elderly Tears” by Leonardo Sinisgalli

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday August 30, 2019

“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday August 23, 2019

“I Remember” by Stevie Smith

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday August 16, 2019

“Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Friday August 9, 2019

“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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