Volume 2, Number 1 (1929) The Purple Pen
Front Matter
Nonfiction
The Fascinating Art of Self Expression
Josephine Hirons
Feelings of a First Generation American
Ethel Christensen
Some Illogical Logic
Richard Shane
Blackberrying with Dad
C. Esther Copp
Fiction
"And Some of Us Call it God"
Mary Wheat
'Nitiation
Harland Hanson
Treasure Trove
Edith E. Whelan
Before Breakfast
Goldie Berryhill
The Concert
Helen Brown
Poetry
The Poet's Lament
Irene Freeman
To E. B. S.
Irving Hart Jr.
A Minor Tragedy
Robert Mallory
Misunderstood
Gladys Simpson
To Colistoy (A Deaf Girl)
Robert Mallory
An Adventure in Rhyme
Gladys Simpson
Beans on a Stick
Alice E. Van Vliet
Book-Keeping
Gladys Simpson
Prose
Grandmother's Kitchen
Hazel Robinson
Clouds at Sunset
Julia Zwickey
Back Matter
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Naida E. Jennings
- Managing Editor
- Harland Hanson