AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“LOTUSLAND (I Remember Kreisler)” is included this week for December 13, National Violin Day. About this poem, the poet wrote to her poetry Round Robin group:: “…from hearing him play in the Shrine Auditorium in Pittsburgh [sometime in the] the early 1930s.” Also interesting is the fact that the author’s paternal grandfather, Alonzo Raper, was a well-known fiddler in their region and had guested on radio.

REFRACTIONS— a poem by Robert Roxby

“TRIBUTE TO A FRIEND” was presented at a memorial in 1991, possibly for the author’s childhood friend, Joe Nesbit. It is included this week for December 11, United Nations Candle Lighting Day, and December 12 United States Ding-A-Ling Day (a day to contact someone, old friend, someone no longer in touch).

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“MUSING ON KANDINSKY’S In a Black Circle” is included this week for Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter and art theorist, who was born and died in December. Kandinsky is a favorite one of the author’s favorite artists.