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 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

“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

“The Flea” by John Donne

By Amanda Holmes | Friday February 8, 2019

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

By Amanda Holmes | Friday January 25, 2019

“Fever 103” by Sylvia Plath

By Amanda Holmes | Friday January 18, 2019

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