File 023452
Poetry in America for Teachers II: Educational Initiative on Poetry, Science and Environment (File 023452)
A comprehensive educational program from Harvard combining poetry study with science and environmental themes, featuring interviews with prominent academics and public figures including Al Gore, Michael Pollan, and Richard Dawkins.
Summary
Poetry in America for Teachers II is an educational initiative developed by Harvard Graduate School of Education, HarvardX, and WGBH that integrates poetry study with science, environmental science, and visual arts education. The program features hundreds of archival images and filmed content from diverse locations including Cape Cod, Nantucket, Vermont, California, and Papua New Guinea, showcasing natural environments and ecosystems. It includes interviews with notable figures discussing various American poets in relation to contemporary themes: Michael Pollan on Joel Barlow and agriculture, Lawrence Summers on Oliver Wendell Holmes and technology, Al Gore on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Dawkins on Robert Frost and evolution, Ray Dalio on Marianne Moore, and Walter Isaacson on Einstein and modernism, among others.
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 inCape 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