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 Little Boat” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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

“Epilogue” by Robert Lowell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 2, 2025

“Leda and the Swan” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 25, 2025

From Midsummer by Derek Walcott

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 18, 2025

“Soap Suds” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 11, 2025

“New Bones” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 4, 2025

“Halley’s Comet” by Stanley Kunitz

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 28, 2025

“Brennende Liebe” by Louise Glück

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 21, 2025

“The Rejected Member’s Wife” by Thomas Hardy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 14, 2025

“Of Light” by Agha Shahid Ali

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 7, 2025

“The Purist” by Ogden Nash

By Amanda Holmes | Friday September 20, 2019

“Any Case” by Wislawa Szymborska

By Amanda Holmes | Friday September 6, 2019

“I Remember” by Stevie Smith

By Amanda Holmes | Friday August 16, 2019
Charles Bukowski

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