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Delores Fisher (Bread and Cie Cafe San Diego, CA) pre-poetry reading It's always an event to remember when you hang out with experienced San Diego poets. Of course when Olga Gutierrez-Garcia, editor of the bilingual volume of the San Diego Poetry Annual and author of "Dark Matters," and I recently decided to make time to talk about newest events in our busy lives, it was an added bonus to go to a poetry reading, especially readings by the select group  of poets chosen for one of San Diego's  premiere poetry publications, The San Diego Poetry Annual 2015-2016     https://sandiegopoetryannual.com/   We try to sit down and hang out at least three times a year. I had completed lesson plans and was almost on the last week of teaching summer school with some pretty awesome, and cool students.            International poet Olga Gutierrez-Garcia at Bread and Cie (San Diego CA) Olga and I headed to Bread and Cie Cafe, had lig...

Fantasy "blogger play": Delores Fisher as correspondent  with the aid of Chris Smith from Sync Sound In a summer of global distress and trauma, global fans of games, cartoons, comic books, and fantasy worlds came together at Comic-Con International: San Diego  http://www.comic-con.org/ in relative peace to celebrate alternative realities built on foundations of the everyday. I was still adapting to playing the piano for two gospel music oriented church choirs, working on my second book, and teaching summer school when I realized preview day had arrived. Signs surrounded San Diego's downtown and East Village. This year's Comic -Con hinted at a more family friendly atmosphere and general public inclusivity.                                                                         ...

    Actress/singer Tymisha Harris and me (Delores Fisher) pre-show. Thanks to Kevin Patterson's dream of having the International Fringe Festival here in San Diego, locals and tourists alike have enjoyed performances by artists from intriguing edgy-fringe, to poignantly funny heart-warming family fringe   http://sdfringe.org/ It's Fringe Festival International's fourth year in San Diego and global artists are performing for eleven fun filled exciting days. We talked about Kevin's hard work and and belief that San Diego, California would embrace the Fringe festival. This is his dream come true.  Kevin's his face glowed with joy. Standing quietly, we watched as the street filled with lines of audiences winding down the sidewalk waiting to see shows at the Geoffrey and the Spreckles Theater. And these are only two of the venues.                      ...

Spring time hello--- with an extra thank you for joining our Sonic tapestry/carpenoctum community to new readers in Brazil, Bulgaria, U.S. Virgin Islands, French Polynesia, Poland India and Algeria.  It has been a busy semester and I hadn't checked new reader stats. What a wonderful surprise and addition to regular Carpe Noctum readers in the U.S., Germany, Russia, France, and China!  Spring semester is over, finals graded, and text/reading lists set for the fall----time to do some summer blogging!                                               Delores Fisher pre-Spring Finals As many of you know, I presented at San Diego Comic Fest again this year http://www.sdcomicfest.org/docs/sdcf-2016-schedule-table.html . My Sunday afternoon topi...

San Diego State University Africana Studies Department 2016 Martin Luther King Luncheon Keynote Speaker Pastor Terrell Fletcher and Blogger/lecturer Delores Fisher The Department of Africana Studies at San Diego State University has been in existence now for over 40 years. It's Martin Luther King Luncheon is well attended and features not only a remembrance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's accomplishments and dreams, but also inspirational speeches, performances, and awards. This year, the MLK Luncheon was held at the new Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union's Montezuma Hall. The main coordinator for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Luncheon was Dept. of Africana Studies Administrative Coordinator, Mrs. Kaia Brown http://africana.sdsu.edu/index.htm  .  She greeted people, made sure the events inner workings quietly unfolded around us.                       ...