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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Sent: 12/19/2016 3:01:54 PM To: Lisa New Subject: Re: Thank You from Lisa and Poetry in America from barnaby - she could apply, but she should know that there are only a few grants in each round; most projects proposed don't get funding. It is like rolling the dice. what people don't understand is that many grants are not funded not because they are defective in any way, but simply because there is not enough funding to cover even a part of what comes in (there are thousands of applications and hundreds of millions of dollars of requests that go all through different kinds of review; it is hard to know what will make it through because different people make the priority decisions at different stages of review; and it depends what other applications are in the pool in a given cycle). There is no "direct" route anymore. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Lisa New < Dear Jeffrey (and please see note at bottom), > wrote: This end-of-the-year letter is to catch you up on developments and to report progress made in 2016 by Poetry in America, by its associated non-profit production company, Verse Video Education, and by (and with) our new Harvard partner, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Whether you are a longstanding adviser and supporter of Poetry in America, or you've more recently joined our circle of proponents, your contributions, thought partnership and enthusiasm have made this year's successes possible. Last fall, I knew this would be a crucial year. Goals for 2016 included moving our co-produced television series, Poetry in America, toward a concrete release date (now entering post-production, we launch nationwide in April 2018), converting our six HarvardX MOOC modules into for-credit courses (now complete and being offered by Harvard's Division of Continuing Education), and getting the word out on our first course developed especially for K-12 educators, Poetry in America for Te […]