BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor What better way to inaugurate spring and a return to normal life than by staging one of greatest operatic masterpieces in history – Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto. And that’s exactly what Opera San Antonio has chosen to do. The beloved opera will be staged with a 52-member orchestra in the pit, a 21-member chorus and prominent, nationally …

The poems we are publishing today were not part of the Ekphrastic Poetry Contest. They are a new addition to the ekphrastic poetry project 2022. They were written by three San Antonio poet laureates and the project coordinator Jim LaVilla-Havelin. Enjoy! Carretta WheelBy Octavio Quintanilla (Inspired by Carretta Wheel from a Tejano Freighter, at the Witte Museum I see our …