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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 12/2/2014 6:57:24 PM 
To: Lisa New 
Subject: Re: poetry and science 
Importance: High 
sorry got called into conference can continue later in week 
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Lisa New < > wrote: 
Dear Jeffrey, 
Apropos of our conversation of a few minutes ago, This proposal went to someone I thought was 
interested in the environment and science but who seems, in fact, far more interested in supporting TV 
on a broad range of topics. 
500,000 would fund this initiative as the second HGSE course (after Poetry of the City) and could begin 
immediately, Jan 1.. I'd be thrilled to include other scientists you name, perhaps taping the group in a 
session on metaphor at the edges of fields. 
INote that taped sessions already include economics, marine biology, astronomy, evolutionary biology, 
zoology, physics and computer science. Richard Dawkins, Walter Isaacson, David Mossberg and David 
Malan have all said yes to tapings. Footage for all the others is already shot and ready for post 
production. 
I am having a drink with Dean of Ed School today and can explore this with him among other topics 
Lisa 
Poetry in America for Teachers II: The Poetry of Earth, Sea, and Sky 
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) 
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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 

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