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                     Delores Fisher Graduate School Years During my initial grad student years, when Alma of Hot Monkey Love Cafe decided to take a chance on me to write interviews and reviews for her website, I got around to concerts quite a lot.  As a Hot Monkey Love Cafe Blues Night and poetry open mic host, I performed and interacted with musicians, composers, poets, prose reader/writers, painters, videographers on stage several nights a week--pure ecstasy! Many artists became more than acquaintances; we kept in touch off stage as well. Like most music grad students, long term immersion in various music scenes was the norm, on the daily. Eventually, in San Diego and parts of LA, word spread that I was  a reviewer as well as a church musician and performance poet (a member of 4nth, a woman's poetry collective). Press kits, and invitations to CD parties, or special gigs arrived weekly via snail mail or on site promos. A decade plus, although I'm teaching and writin