Delores Fisher: Quick Update and Hello for April 2026 Poetry Month in the United States

Hello everyone. It has been a really busy global roller coaster rocket spin year!!!!

Just a few updates for us to chat about since the last post.

Delores Fisher Blogger, Poet, Musician

Flashback Time: Gathering of national and international poets at the San Diego Valencia Park Malcolm X Library:

Update 2026: Still performing from time to time with the above poets.

Currently however, I am performing with various readers theater groups. Performed with a new semi-theatrical troupe on March 18th at the San Diego Malcolm X Library and will hopefully continue as the year opens into a possible touring Reader's Theater Group coached by Write Out Loud's Pamela Britain.

Although we read a few prose selections, our focus was Poetry! We had fun sharing various well known poets' work with a small, but attentive audience.

The group 2026 Valencia Park/ Malcolm X Branch Library Group: Danita, Alan, and me- Delores ---hopefully photos and reviews to come.

Now, In Memoriom: San Diego lost area linked poets in 2025:

Fanny Howe--essayist and poet, (thank you Night Boat Books) died in also a professor Emeritas at the University of California, San Diego

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/fanny-howe

Jim Hornsby Moreno-Poet and activist, educator, mentor

https://lomabeat.com/a-tribute-and-reading-for-san-diego-poet-jim-moreno/

Viet Ma-Poet, educator

https://youtu.be/0BkRDDOHQsA?si=5_-uLLRE743ELILV

Among various April celebrations, April is poetry month . . .celebrate your favorite poet(s).

Read their works silently or out loud.

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Delores Fisher

Whether you listen to a beginning or seasoned poet, encourage and show appreciation

As we said in 1960s in our African American community:

" Give them their flowers while they yet live!"

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