From: Lisa New ee Sent: 12/19/2016 4:36:41 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] cc: Leah Reis-Denn is = Subject: Thank You from Lisa and Poetry in America Importance: — High Dear Jeffrey (and please see note at bottom), This end-of-the-year letter is to catch you up on developments and to report progress made in 2016 by Poetry in America, by its associated non-profit production company, Verse Video Education, and by (and with) our new Harvard partner, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Whether you are a longstanding adviser and supporter of Poetry in America, or you’ve more recently joined our circle of proponents, your contributions, thought partnership and enthusiasm have made this year’s successes possible. Last fall, | knew this would be a crucial year. Goals for 2016 included moving our co-produced television series, Poetry in America, toward a concrete release date (now entering post-production, we launch nationwide in April 2018), converting our six HarvardX MOOC modules into for-credit courses (now complete and being offered by Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education), and getting the word out on our first course developed especially for K-12 educators, Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop. With a mission of creating and distributing the highest- quality humanities content for a wide variety of learners, our projects now rely on a salaried production staff of five, a rotating corps of part timers and contractors, and a growing cohort of Harvard graduate students, undergraduates and interns whom we train in the public-facing humanities. Growing fast, in 2016 we more firmly established Verse Video Education as a nimble and stable producer of humanities-based content (now including an archive of over 120 separate interviews with distinguished discussants), while also defining a forward-looking partnership and growth strategy with Harvard. As 2016 draws to a close, | have much progr