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.

“After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” by Galway Kinnell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 3, 2026

“But Maybe God Needs Our Longing” by Nelly Sachs

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 24, 2026

“Curtains” by Ruth Stone

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 17, 2026

“The Temple Road” by Lynette Roberts

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 10, 2026

“The Brook Has Worked out the Prominences of a Bend” by A. R. Ammons

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday February 3, 2026

“The Armadillo” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 27, 2026

“Maritime Poem” by Nizar Qabbani

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 20, 2026

“Femme Noire” by Léopold Sédar Senghor

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 13, 2026

“i thank You God for most this amazing day” by E. E. Cummings

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday January 6, 2026

“Poem III” from Twenty-One Love Poems by Adrienne Rich

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 30, 2025

“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes

By Amanda Holmes | Friday April 12, 2019

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