Ekphrastic poetry

For those of us working in all kinds of genres: Moonrise, Aurora, Nebraska by Twyla Hansen No Ansel Adams but the snapshots we captured through the open car window on our eight megapixel cell phones on the side of the road off an exit ramp as truck taillights streaked eastbound opposite the earth’s rotation in…

Genius Loci

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-84) Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California (1944)  Gelatin silver print. A dramatic celebration of the natural world San Francisco-born Ansel Adams took his first photograph in 1916, but his original plan was to become a pianist. At the age of 12 he started teaching himself to play the piano and read…