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.

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

“Pin Pricks of Loneliness” by Etheridge Knight

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 29, 2025

“Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight” by Galway Kinnell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 22, 2025

“Fever 103” by Sylvia Plath

By Amanda Holmes | Friday January 18, 2019

“Church Going” by Philip Larkin

By Amanda Holmes | Friday December 7, 2018

“The Pool” by H. D.

By Amanda Holmes | Friday November 30, 2018

“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop

By Amanda Holmes | Friday November 9, 2018

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