"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.
