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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) 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 Jane Pickering In Harvard's Museum of Natural History on Marianne Moore, zoology and science museums 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 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025515