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.

“Days of 1964” by James Merrill

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 16, 2026

“For Grace, After a Party” by Frank O’Hara

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 9, 2026

“On the Threshold” by Amy Levy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday June 2, 2026

“The Field of Waterloo” by Thomas Hardy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 26, 2026

“The Lambs Are Not for Sale” by Paula Bohince

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 19, 2026

“The Boy Died in My Alley” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 12, 2026

“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” by Robert Browning

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday May 5, 2026

“Twilight: After Haying” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 28, 2026

“Before the Loon Calls”  by David Mason

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 21, 2026

“The Return” by Philip Levine

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 14, 2026

“Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski

By Amanda Holmes | Friday November 15, 2019

“The Purist” by Ogden Nash

By Amanda Holmes | Friday September 20, 2019

“Any Case” by Wislawa Szymborska

By Amanda Holmes | Friday September 6, 2019

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