A collection inspired by 20th century poets. This volume is quasi-postmodern poetry.

"Purpose" is a poetry book based on the May through July-August 2011 issues of Down in the Dirt magazine (the magazine "revealing all your dirty little secrets", founded 2000 though originally a section in cc&d magazine in 1994,, http://scars.tv/dirt) into this poetry and prose (and very occasionally artwork), published by Scars Publications. The cover art of this collection book was photographed in Chicago in 2011. Writers in this collection book inlcude Janet Kuypers, Tom Ball, Chad D. Barber, Matthew T. Birdsall, Elena Botts, Wm. Samuel Bradford, Rex Bromfield, Jon Brunette, Mark Breckenridge, Eric Burbridge, Brandi Capozzi, Gibson Culbreth, Derek A Davis, Frank De Canio, Kenneth DiMaggio, Steve Dodd, Travis Green, Nathan Hahs, Fritz Hamilton, Rod Hamon, Christopher Hanson, Kathleen Hennessey, Cheryl Hicks, Matt Hlinak, Eric Holden, Ruth Juris, James Kowalczyk, Jennifer E. Lee , Kathryn Leetch, Joseph Lisowski, Brian Looney, Sarah Lucille Marchant, Denny E. Marshall, William Masters, John Constantine Mastor, Kristopher Miller, Jeffrey Park, Steven Pelcman, Donna Pucciani, John Ragusa, J. D. Riso, Amanda Ronan, Daniel J Roozen, Larry Schug, Ian C Smith, Liam Spencer, Bob Strother, Lori Ulrich, Clinton Van Inman, Kerry Lown Whalen, Donald C. White Jr., Changming Yuan and Eleanor Leonne Bennett.

"falling" is a poetry and prose collection book based on the September through December 2012 issues of Down in the dirt magazine (byline: "revealing all your dirty little secrets", founded 2000, http://scars.tv/dirt, was originally a ection of cc&d magazine from Scars Publications in 1994) into this poetry and prose (and 1 piece of artwork), published by Scars Publications. Contributors in this colledction book inlcude Janet Kuypers, P. Keith Boran, Rex Bromfield, Jon Brunette, Eric Burbridge, Benjamin Card, Jim Carson, Michael Cavazos, Benjamin Christensen, Brittany Clark, Kenneth DiMaggio, Annabelle Dura, Kristen Forbes, Cassia Gaden Gilmartin, Chad Grant, Michael Greeley, Travis Green, Michael Gruber, Nathan Hahs, Fritz Hamilton, Jack Hill, Christopher Hanson, William Wright Harris, Shaun Horton, Marlon Jackson, Eleanor Leonne Bennett (with art), Loukia M. Janavaras, Larry January, Christopher Reinhardt Krueger, Christie Lambert, Lasher Lane, Kathryn Leetch, Brian Looney, Gary Lundy, Sarah Lucille Marchant, Denny E. Marshall, Kevin Moore, Zach Murphy, Jeffrey Park, Steven Pelcman, John Ragusa, Larry Schug, Alessandra Siraco, Liam Spencer, Bob Strother, Brian Sullivan, Don Thompson, Frank Traverse, Mark Vogel, Nicholas Viglietta, Allen M Weber, Megan Willoughby, and Bill Wolak.