AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“HAIKU FOR A.F.W.” is included this week for Teacher’s Day, May 8. Alice Frances Wright was the author’s writing teacher and her good friend for many years. Note of interest: Mrs. Wright was Arthur Miller’s high school teacher. She also founded and facilitated an annual authors’ festival which ran for many years in Long Beach, California which attracted many well-known writers like Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Mary Stewart, Adela Rogers St. Johns.

REFRACTIONS—the poetry of Robert Roxby

“WE WERE FREE, Part One” is the first stanza of a longer poem about the author’s life after high school during the Great Depression of the 1930’s when he worked for the Civil Conservation Corps and made life-long friends.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“DRUMS IN THE NIGHT” is included this week for National Twilight Zone Day, May 11. The poem was suggested by an image of the wall described. The wall featured later in one of the poet’s dreams and it is the dream which suggested the mood of the poem.