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How To Love This Life: Book Release

The Jam

Mary Oliver believes “it is a serious thing, just to be alive on this fresh morning, in this broken world.” On Saturday, February 6 at 8:00 p.m. at the Jam in Arcata, A Reason to Listen Poetry Collective hopes to inspire our community to consider How to Love this Life amidst a broken world. Selections from Therese FitzMaurice’s newest poetry collection, How to Love this Woman, accompanied by movement and music will lead the audience through an exploration of the cycle of desire, doubt and fulfillment. FitzMaurice will be joined by poets Vanessa Vrtiak and Jeremiah Anderson, musicians Jesse Jonathan (SambAmore, Motherlode), Tommy FitzMaurice (Bump Foundation, Free Rain) and Amy Day, and dancers Melanie Zapper and Shannon Adams. After the performance, DJ Goldilocks and Rosewater (Dead Cover Band) will ignite an epic dance party aimed at opening our hearts toward the gift each fresh morning offers those who choose to live fully in this broken, beautiful world. Doors will open at 7:30. General admission is $10, $8 for students. Attendees will have the first opportunity to purchase FitzMaurice’s newest poetry collection, How to Love this Woman at the door for an additional $2, $4. Books will be on sale after the event at aReasonToListen.com for $12.99 or $15.00 with audio CD or find us on Facebook. Questions: 498-3564 or aReasonToListen@gmail.com. Advanced Praise for How To Love This Woman: These brave poems beautifully articulate a love of the body and a love of the earth, a love we all need to remember. —-Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older Than Words, The Culture Of Make Believe Therese FitzMaurice’s poetry unveils for us the tangible world of family, food, love, desire, children reaching into the evanescent, the unknown, the divine. She makes these lyrical transitions as natural as breathing—and invites us into the richness of her discoveries—and in so doing, offers us this gift of her wisdom, which she herself has received as gift—and asks us to pass along. —- Dave Holper, author of 64 Questions These poems depict “the inner landscape of the Woman I Keep to Myself,” (“The Raven”) written by a poet who has “done the painful work of looking closely. —Pat McCutchen, author of Slipped Past Words

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WHERE

• The Jam

PRICE

• $10
• $12 with Book
• $8 Students