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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 12/2/2015 5:58:02 PM 
To: Lesley Groff 
Subject: Re: Poetry Update and Thank You 
I'd like to speak to her 
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015, Lesley Groff wrote: 
did you want to send the below to Lisa? (or have me ask her?) 
On Dec 2, 2015, at 12:53 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Do you know Chomsky, he Is with me 
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
----------Forwarded message 
From: Lisa New < 
s with me 
Date: Wednesday, 2 December 2015 
Subject: Poetry Update and Thank You 
To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
That's ideal. Larry's away and I'll be working all day. I'm free any time. 
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:31 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
I'm in Cambridge sat? 
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015, Lisa New ___________________> wrote: 
Dear Jeffrey, 
May I drop by before the New Year (perhaps on the 9th, or on the 17th or 18th?) to get your 
advice about my renewal of the Templeton campaign, and also my needs in the coming year for 
Poetry in America? Below is the letter I'm sending out to my friends and supporters, and at the 
bottom a message just for you.... 
-Lisa 
That you are receiving this letter means that you are among a special community of friends whose 
support— financial, moral, intellectual, logistical— has allowed my initiative, Poetry in America, to 
realize what seemed, a year ago, almost certainly too ambitious a vision. That vision was to 
produce the highest quality educational video on American poetry, creating a body of 
humanities content capable of reaching a broad community of learners: formal and 
informal, online and residential, young and old, American and international. And it was to 
begin— rapidly— to disseminate and distribute our work. 
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Whether you donated to Poetry in America through Filmmaker's Collaborative (our 501c3 fiscal 
sponsor), through Harvard, or through WGBH; whether you appea

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