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Poetry in America for Teachers II : The Poetry of Earth, Sea, and Sky 
(an initiative of  Harvard Graduate School of Education, HarvardX and WGBH)  

Combining study of poetry with study of science, environment and the visual arts .  Materials include hundreds archival images and live footage shot in 
Cape Cod, Nantucket,  Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Jamaica,  Aspen, California, Papua New Guinea including  oceans, ponds, marshes, birds, fish mountains, coral reefs, forests as well in some major collections (HMNH etc) 

with author Michael Pollan on Joel Barlow (and colonial agriculture)  

with economist Lawrence Summers on Oliver Wendell Holmes, (and technology  and “one hoss shay” depreciation) 

with Harvard students at the Nantucket Whaling Museum and with , John Steele, editor of the science magazine, Nautlilus, , on Lowell and Melville 

with Vice President Al Gore on Ralph Waldo Emerson ,and, with eco-critic Lawrence Buell (with footage taped on the Concord River as well as in Harvard’s Houghton Rare Book Library ) 

with a dozen Harvard students and  Boston area school teachers on Emily Dickinson’s “skies” (shot at Emily Dickinson’s home in Amherst Massachusetts)  and with ED’s original mss. at Harvard University

with Martin Espada and other New Yorkers (footage shot on the East River) on Whitman and urban greenspace  and with Susan Howe on Stevens and parks

with Richard Dawkins on Frost, evolution and probability and with Jay Parini, Frost biographer, in Frost’s cabin on “The Road not Taken”. 

with Director of the College Board (and writer of the Common Core Standards) , David Coleman on Robert Frost’s “Birches” (filmed in a birch grove)  

with Peter Galison on Einstein and Modernism (taped in the Harvard Scientific Instruments collection in the Harvard Science Center) and with author Walter Isaacson on Einstein and Modernism  (Fogg Museum) 

with Ray Dalio on Marianne Moore( in Rajah Ampat with Conservation International);  and with Jane Pickering

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