Blair Mountain Press
Blair Mountain Press
124 East Todd Street
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Phone 502-330-3707
Victor M. Depta, Publisher
email: victordepta1@gmail.com
Chris Green and Edwina Pendarvis, Co-Editors
Betty Huff, Managing Editor
email: bettyahuff2@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/VictorDepta
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In 1999, a small group of Appalachian writers decided to establish a press with the aim of publishing their work as it relates to the region and to the environment. After nineteen years, twenty-one volumes have been completed, which is impressive, considering the Press's limited means.
The name of the press comes from a mountain in southern West Virginia. Blair is the divide between two watersheds, westward into Logan County and the Guyandotte River and eastward into Boone County and the Little Coal River. On its slopes in 1921, 10,000 coal miners battled 3000 state police, deputies, mine guards and Federal troops in a war over unionization of the miners.
In 1972 on Buffalo Creek, a few miles from Blair, 125 people were drowned and 4000 left homeless when two slurry dams collapsed and flooded the hollow with black, viscous water.
Blair Mountain is now being threatened with mountaintop removal coal mining. Additionally, due to the efforts of Massey Energy (Alpha Natural Resources), Arch Coal and Natural Resource Partners, the state of West Virginia has asked the National Park Service to remove Blair Mountain from its Register of Historic Places. Please go to the Sierra Club Site for information on the mountain's destruction. Please support the efforts to prevent further decimation of the environment.
Catalogue
2018-2019
The Strawberry Moon
by Victor M. Depta
2017 ISBN 978-0-9861789-1-7
Letters to Buddha
by Victor M. Depta
2015 ISBN 978-0-9768817-9-7
Ghost Dance Poems
by Edwina Pendarvis
2015 ISBN 978-0-9861789-0-0
Poems: What Love Is
by Victor Marshall Depta
2013 ISBN 978-0-9768817-8-0
Twofold Consciousness: Poetry and Essays on Mysticism
by Victor Marshall Depta
2012 ISBN 978-0-9768817-7-3
Brother and Sister: A Memoir
by Victor M. Depta
2011 ISBN 978-0-9768817-6-6
The Dancing Dragon Poems
by Victor M. Depta
2010 ISBN 978-0-9768817-5-9
Raft Tide and Railroad
by Edwina Pendarvis
2008 ISBN 978-0-9768817-4-2
House of the Moon
by Vasek Drobny
2008 ISBN 978-0-9768817-3-5
An Afterthought of Light
by Victor Depta
2007 ISBN 978-0-9768817-2-8
Coal: A Poetry Anthology
Chris Green, Editor
2006 ISBN 0-8768817-1-3
The Simultaneous Mountain: Essays on Poetry and Mysticism
by Victor Depta
2005 ISBN 0-9768817-0-5
The Little Henry Poems
by Victor Depta
2005 ISBN 0-9666609-9-7
A West Virginia Trilogy
by Victor Depta
2004 ISBN 0-9666608-8-9
Like the Mountains of China
by Edwina Pendarvis
2003 ISBN 0-9666608-7-0
Mountains and Clouds: Four Comedies
by Victor Depta
2003 ISBN 0-9666608-6-2
Azrael on the Mountain
by Victor Depta
2002 ISBN 978-0-9666608-5-2
Preparing a Room
by Victor Depta
2001 ISBN 0-9666608-4-6
Plays from Blair Mountain: Four Comedies
by Victor Depta
2000 ISBN 0-9666608-3-8
The Silence of Blackberries
by Victor Depta
1999 ISBN 0-9666608-0-3
In Praise of Motels
by Pamela Steed Hill
1999 ISBN 0-9666608-1-1
The Helen Poems
by Victor Depta
Ion Books 1994 ISBN 0-938507-22-2
A Doorkeeper in the House
by Victor Depta
Ion Books 1993 ISBN 0-938507-21-4
The House
by Victor Depta
New Rivers Press 1978 ISBN 0-912284-93-5
The Creek
by Victor Depta
Ohio University Press 1973
ISBN 8214-0121-1
© Victor Depta 2018