Therese Fitzmaurice
Therese Fitzmaurice recently published her fourth collection of poetry How to Love this Woman (Feb. 2016). Many poems in that collection are featured in her current recording project with musicians, Jesse Jonathon and Amy Day. Her work explores the inner landscape of a life lived contemplating the intersection of spirit & flesh, individual & tribe, offering & receiving. Therese FitzMaurice, along with Vanessa Vrtiak, cofounded A Reason to Listen poetry collective in 2004. They host the wildly popular, 10-year-strong, Humboldt Poetry, the first Thursday of the month at Siren’s Song Tavern in Eureka. They have co-written and performed two full-length choreo-poems (Excavating the HIstory of Love and Resuscitating the Sequence of Sacrifice), toured nationally and performed at notable poetry venues including the Nuyorican Café and the Apollo in NYC. They continue to perform and teach in high school and college classrooms, the Humboldt County jail, churches, baby showers, writing groups & conferences.