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.

“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

“Wild Peaches” by Elinor Wylie

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 15, 2025

“Campo dei Fiori” by Czesław Miłosz

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 8, 2025

“The Dream” by Theodore Roethke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday April 1, 2025

“Käthe Kollwitz” by Muriel Rukeyser

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 25, 2025

“The Yellowhammer’s Nest” by John Clare

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday March 18, 2025

From All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 8, 2024

“The Gaffe” by C. K. Williams

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 1, 2024

“The Pulley” by George Herbert

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 24, 2024

“Snake” by D. H. Lawrence

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday September 17, 2024

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