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 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

“Absence” by Elizabeth Jennings

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 23, 2025

“Was He Married?” by Stevie Smith

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 16, 2025

“The Little Boat” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 9, 2025
Robert Lowell at the Grolier Bookshop in Harvard Square in 1965 (Elsa Dorfman)

“Epilogue” by Robert Lowell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 2, 2025

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday December 10, 2024

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday November 19, 2024

From All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday October 8, 2024

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