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 Return” by Philip Levine

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 14, 2026

“Only Voice Remains” by Forugh Farrokhzad

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 7, 2026

“Personal” by Tony Hoagland

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 31, 2026

“Field and Forest” by Randall Jarrell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 24, 2026

“A Birthday Present” by Sylvia Plath

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 17, 2026

“In Love You Rise” by Ibrahim Nasrallah

Poems read aloud, beautifully 

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 10, 2026

“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

“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes

By Amanda Holmes | Friday April 12, 2019

“The Flea” by John Donne

By Amanda Holmes | Friday February 8, 2019

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