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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, Head of the Harvard Natural History Museum, ( filmed in the Harvard Museum of Natural History)
with Walt Mossberg and David Malan on coding, computer language and L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry