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.

“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

“Sakura Park” by Rachel Wetzsteon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 17, 2025

“The Last One” by W. S. Merwin

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 10, 2025

“In the Summer” by Nizar Qabbani

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 3, 2025

“A Blessing” by James Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 27, 2025

“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 20, 2025

“That Day” by Nikki Giovanni

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 13, 2025

“Piano Fire” by Claudia Emerson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 6, 2025
A brunette woman in 1920s attire looks directly at the camera

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