Dedicated to the men who work the coal mines and the people who love them...
A Place of... AmazingGrace is available for purchase. ALL proceeds go to The West Virginia Council of Churches Miner's Assistance Fund and benefit the families that were left behind. This chapbook was a project of the heart from Debra Harmes Kurth and Art With Words Publications. She is a native West Virginian. If this tragedy touched YOUR heart, please consider buying a copy to contribute to this worthwhile cause. Many poets/writers have contributed to its pages, including:
Beth Guye Kittle A Shared Grief; West Virginia Homecoming Debra Harmes Kurth Rememberin' Yesterday; Don't Forget Them; Coal Country Deep Linda Gayton Between The Sun and Moon Cindy Harper The Design; Coal Miners and Kings; Mine Barbara Jean Dark Mines Mary Rudge What Can I Do? Alan Levine The Men of the Sago Mine Jill Eisnaugle Twelve Angels-In Memory of the West Virginia Miners Lola Warren Watching Sago Ted L Glines In Talmansville Jim Lambert A Bad Start to a Sad Day Selma Fehely Sago's Darkness Daren Florman Survivor Martha Beard The Mine Betty Grugin The Sago Mine Alphonse J. Buttaci West Virginia Memories Nancy Freeman Grandpa's Warning Paula Timpson Revelation Bernadette Gonzalez Cold Hearted Mine Glenn A. Hascall Wounded Dust Joe Montrosso Deep Affliction Patricia Ellyn Powell Them Thar Hills Sal Amico M. Buttaci Loving West Virginia; Your Labor Done Patricia Wellington-Jones Gathering In The Wind Susan Culver Sago Mary Ellen Davis Always Say Goodbye Charlotte Zuzak The Mine Lynn Veach Sadler Sago Janine Margiotta when they come to dig us out Dale Harding Tallmansville Mary Meltzer Black Veil Mary Lenore Quigley A Dark and Dirty Sepulcher Mary Sue Kessell Rosen With the Pride of their Father's;The Connection To Lose; With respect for black dots... Linda C. Grazulis Out Of The Ground Barbara Chaapel Synergy Najwa Salam Brax The Knell Henry Newton Goldman Disaster At The Sago Mine Sherri Tillmann On Endless Mountains Robert Demaree At The Funeral Home Dennis Leischner Of Games and Miners Juanita Torrence Thompson Litany Of A Wife Mary Lenore Quigley A Christmas Long Ago Mary Rudge The TV Watchers Michelle Close Mills Lines Lynn Veach Sadler Tennessee Miner's Daughter Florence Reece (Dorsimbra) Karen O'Leary Down in the Coal Mines Debra Quick God Has Twelve New Angels
To order: Single copies $6.50 AND three 39 cent stamps to cover postage.
Make your checks out to: WV Council of Churches Miners Assist. Fund
Mail your orders for the chapbook to:
Debra J. Harmes Kurth 1050A McGhee St. Milton, WV 25541
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
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