Harper's Magazine: 1969

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1969

January	Selected Articles Letter from Leete's Island: Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee By John Fischer President Nixon and Vietnam By David Halberstam Fiction The offal kind By Ayi Kwei Armah Poetry Memorial Hall, Cambridge, July 3 By L.E. Sissman Gates to the city—Bowery hotel By Donald McCaig
February	Selected Articles God, country, and Billy Graham By John Corry Fiction Stonewall Jackson's waterloo By Albert Murray Poetry Cemetery: Litchfield County By Rose Styron
March	Selected Articles Some guesses about the next Kremlin conspiracy By John Fischer 536 characters in search of a legislative program By Arthur I. Blaustein Fiction Nights at O'Rear's By Patricia Browning Griffith Poetry Sixties By Lawrence Durrell The place where I've not been By Yehuda Amichai
April	Selected Articles The Minnesota experiment: How to make a big city fit to live in By John Fischer Castro's Cuba: Drums, guns, and the new man By John Corry Fiction Rubbings By Julia Whedon Poetry A friend of the family By Louis Aston Marantz Simpson Have you seen Thomas? By John Nagenda
May	Selected Articles Seattle's modern-day vigilantes By John Fischer The academy that overlooks Rome By Russell Lynes Fiction Since when do they charge admission By Wright Morris Poetry Living there By James Dickey The vealers By Maxine Kumin
June	Selected Articles The artist and the university By Eric Larrabee How to control the military By John Kenneth Galbraith Poetry A word in your ear on behalf of indifference By Peter Davison Epitaph for a ladies' man By David Wagoner
July	Selected Articles Time: After Luce By Richard Pollak A different kind of campus: The experiment at Santa Cruz By John Fischer Fiction In the reign of peace By Hugh Nissenson Poetry Black boy in the dark By Anthony Hecht The floating lady By David Wagoner
August	Selected Articles Where it's at By John Fischer How to make politics from art, and vice versa By Russell Lynes Fiction Troop withdrawal—the initial step By Thomas Parker Poetry Burnt out By Daryl Hine The dream he never knew the end of (an episode from Audubon, “The prairie”) By Robert Penn Warren
September	Selected Articles Survival U: Prospectus for a really relevant university By John Fischer In Russia By Arthur Miller Fiction Alcohol tripping By Don Mitchell Poetry Afterwards By Rose Styron Sours of the hills By Gary Snyder
October	Selected Articles Taps at Utah Beach By Robert Kotlowitz Memories of Joe McCarthy By Dean Acheson Fiction Memphis By Marianne Leonard Poetry To certain English poets By Donald Davie Third Psalm: The September vision By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin
November	Selected Articles The undeclared witch-hunt By Tom Wicker Igor Stravinsky: On illness and death By Robert Craft Fiction The third son By Andreæi Platonovich Platonov Poetry In the Badlands By David Wagoner
December	Selected Articles France: A struggle against the second-rate By Friedel Ungeheuer Christmas list By John Fischer Poetry Clouds By John Ashbery The presence By Maxine Kumin