From: Lisa New Sent: 12/17/2017 7:18:33 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Subject: thank you to friends of Poetry in America Attachments: poetry_logo_cmyk_light-bg.jpg Importance: High Dear Jeffrey: (and please see personal P.S. under my signature!) I am writing now, as I have for the last several years, to update you on the work that Poetry in America and Verse Video Education have done in the last year. Below, I detail the accomplishments of 2017 and, below that, some projects I hope to complete in 2018. But first: my deepest thanks to you who have contributed financially, intellectually, creatively, and in so many other ways to Poetry in America’s work. Some of you receiving this letter have generously supported Verse Video Education, the independent non-profit production company (a 501¢3) I founded in 2015. Verse Video Education now partners with WGBH television as well as with Harvard University (and others) to make the highest quality educational media for broad audiences. Whether you supported me by sharing your own interpretive talents on camera or by helping me to land elusive talent; whether you provided me funding, or equipment, or business wisdom, or organizational advice, or a space in which to film, or just plain interest in the work-- I am immensely grateful. Making media-- and especially television-- is complex, and expensive, and I could not have navigated the road from professor to professor/producer/director without you. Others of you have supported my humanities work at Harvard, and, in particular, Harvard's efforts to provide distance education of all kinds. Now (along with partners at the Bok Center, HarvardX, the Graduate School of Education, and the Extension School), I produce educational content for a wide global community of learners. Increasingly, Poetry in America not only distributes state-of-the-art humanities content within and beyond Harvard’s gates, but we also train, mentor, and support a growing number of Harvard unde