AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN – a poem by Margaret Roxby

“SUNLIGHT ON THE CAMPUS is included this week for February 1, National Freedom Day. This poem was inspired when the author received a letter from her friend, Elena (then a new older student at Berkeley University), describing her delight at being at the university. The poem was first published in 1976 in Poetry Forum.

KALEIDOSCOPE—by Kathleen Roxby

“ARTICLES AND PRONUNCIATION WILLFULNESS” is another in the author’s series on the oddities of the English language.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—a poem by Kathleen Roxby

“MARGINS” is included this week for National Freedom Day, February 1. While still in school the poet began noticing comments/drawings which appeared in the margins of her fellow students’ tablets and also in the margins of used books. This led her to think beyond that image to the wider interpretation of what a margin is. The thought expressed in this poem was often the subject of conversations in her family home.