HOUSE OVERSIGHT 019204 endorsed the integration and expansion of my public-facing humanities work within the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. As a Bok Fellow this year, and alongside Bok director Rob Lue in the years to come, I will be working to substantially expand Bok's capacity and resources to train humanists in 21st-century methods of public engagement-- developing courses, digital fellowship opportunities and also securing distribution outlets and partners for content produced in Bok by Harvard humanists. By next year at this time, I will be turning some of my attention beyond poetry (my favorite, but hardly the only humanistic mode of communication!) to create a wider base of humanities materials for use in American schools and other institutions. We will begin integrating and anchoring Poetry in America content (on art, sport and play; on the environment; and on health and well being) with content created by others. As I continue to experiment with use of digital media within my residential courses for undergraduates and graduates, I shall also be working with other faculty and graduate students. My work at Bok will also facilitate collaborations between humanists working across the whole university. Projects for 2017 include work with HarvardX on drama and Shakespeare, with Harvard's Center for the Environment, with the Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School, and with several programs within Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Launching in 2017: Our First Course Designed Specifically for Teachers Verse Video Education has allocated much of its staff time this year to bringing its first course designed specifically to support the American secondary classroom to completion. Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop draws on assets created at HarvardX, along with footage captured with our TV partners and independently by Verse Video Education. The resulting course, designed for Engli