"Mrs. Richsmeier Meets a Crisis," "This Sky," "O'Neill and Adams Face Multiplicity," and "Credo" by Mona Van Duyn from The Purple Pen, Volume XIV, Number 1 (November 1941). Van Duyn's first publication.
"Arts and Letters," Washington University Magazine, Volume 53, Number 2 (Spring 1983). Sidebar discussing the election of Mona Van Duyn and William H. Gass to the Institute of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
"3 A.M., 1942;" "Woman Waiting;" "Poem;" and "Nap" by Mona Van Duyn from American Prefaces , Volume VIII, Number 1 (Autumn 1942). Van Duyn's first publications in a national literary magazine.