From: Lisa New [REDACTED]
Sent: 12/2/2014 7:15:11 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: poetry and science 

Importance: High
 
okay. you let me know when you can talk. 
And I hadn't added to this list neuroscience--where Emily Dickinson has it nailed-- and maybe 
this would be the right poem for your group. Notice how many metaphors are operating 
simultaneously here 

The Brain, within its Groove 
Runs evenly--and true--
But let a Splinter swerve--
'Twere easier for You--
To put a Current back--
When Floods have slit the Hills--
And scooped a Turnpike for Themselves--
And trodden out the Mills--

I get to New York Thursday am or perhaps tomorrow night...haven't decided quite yet which. 
Always prefer face to face if you have time 

lisa 

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Lisa New <[REDACTED]> 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) 

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 

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 Stefan Weiss, Walt Mossberg and David Malan on coding, computer language and 
L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry 

Elisa New 
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature 
Harvard University 
148 Barker Center 
12 Quincy Street 
Cambridge, MA 
02138 
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