Editor’s Notes
T
BEER GARDEN
& WINE BAR
Noon to 2am
live music • pool
412 E Holland Ave
Alpine
432.837.5060
The Hal Flanders Recycling
Center accepts glass, tin and
aluminum cans, paper, plas-
tics #1 and #2, magazines,
cardboard and more.
Visit: www.alpinerecyles.org
to learn more about how and
where to recycle or call
432.294.3183 for details.
Funding made possible by the Texas
Commission for Environmental Quality
through the Rio Grande Council of
Governments.
Alice’s Cafe
Mexican food & more
Open Mon - Sat • 6 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 5 - 8 p.m.
432.729.4188
906 W San Antonio St • Marfa
TRY THE BIG BEND
“STIMULUS PACKAGE”
hank you to all of
you who have
taken time to tell
us how much you like the
Cenizo Journal. From the
stories to the photos to the
ads – it’s been great to get
a round of applause. Lots
of people even comment
on the paper!
We appreciate your
encouragement and especially thank Big Bend
Sentinel and International publishers and
editors Robert and Rosario Halpern for their
generous welcome to the literary life of the Big
Bend. Saludos, amigos!
Many people ask how they can support us.
To that I say – patronize our advertisers and
thank them for advertising – ask folks who don’t
advertise to do so and – subscribe! We are off
to a great subscriber start – thank you for your
support.
But there’s more ahead – it’s summer and lots
going on in the Big Bend of Texas. One of the
best events is the one we salute in this issue – the
Way Out West Texas Book Festival July 31 and
August 1 in Alpine at the Espino Conference
Center (second floor of the University Center
on the Sul Ross campus). This event is sponsored
by our local Rotary International chapter and
benefits the Alpine and Marathon libraries. Last
year (the first) was fantastic and raised $10,000
for the libraries, and this year promises to be, as
they say, even better!
The same beautiful land, breathtaking skies,
dark nights and “something special” that has
inspired ranchers to ranch and dreamers to
dream and painters to paint is inspiring writers
to write!
You’ll meet some of them in this issue –
proven writers like Lonn Taylor, new writers like
Megan Wilde and her artist husband Avram
Dumitrescu, visiting writers like Sasha Watson
and poet Jessica Moore, both translators, too,
and people in new places like Andrew Stuart,
newly the editor of the Hudspeth County Herald and
Dell Valley Review.
We start this issue with a new private printer,
Lauren Stedman of Terlingua who creates
beautiful printing with antique presses from a
restored building in the Ghostown. And we end
with a bit of history about a Fort Davis building
that has come to house, among other things, the
Jeff Davis County Library.
And in between, learn what the Lannan
Foundation residency program for writers in
Marfa is all about, as well as the July Texas
Writers’ Retreat in Alpine each summer; see the
photographs that capture the heart of the Big
Bend in the words of the photographer herself,
June Redford Van Cleef; listen to the oral
history of Jim Glendinning’s “Voices of the Big
Bend” and learn from Steve Anderson’s review
of the newest book about the Rio Grande, the
always-a-favorite trivia quiz and j vigil martinez’
ethereal poetry.
All kinds of writing for all kinds of readers –
enjoy! And see you at the Way Out West Texas
Book Festival.
Dallas Baxter
Published by Cenizo Journal LLC
PO Box 2025, Alpine, Texas 79831
www.cenizojournal.com
100 %
6
C E N I ZO J O U R N A L S TA F F
Organic, Fair Trade
and Roasted Daily
...in Marfa!
Marfa, Texas (432) 729-4503
www.bigbendcoffee.com
Cenizo
Third Quarter 2009
PUBLISHER/EDITOR
Dallas Baxter
[email protected]
GRAPHICS
Wendy Lynn Wright
[email protected]
BUSINESS MANAGER
Martha Latta
[email protected]
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Cenizo Journal will be mailed direct for $25.00 annually.
Checks made payable to: Cenizo Journal PO Box 2025, Alpine, Texas 79831
SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for October issue: August 15, 2009.
Art, photographic & literary works may be e-mailed to the Editor.
For advertising rates or to place an ad, contact: [email protected]