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.

“Saint Francis and the Sow” by Galway Kinnell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 16, 2025
A brunette woman in 1920s attire looks directly at the camera

“Dear Possible” by Laura Riding

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 9, 2025

“If Money” by Kenneth Fearing

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 2, 2025

“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

“Hope” by Lisel Mueller

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 23, 2026

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