Poetry in America IV: The Poetry of Character Development and the Emotional Life Conversations already taped or scheduled include
with NBA player Jason Collins on Emily Dickinson’s on “My Life has Stood a Loaded Gun” and “Tell all the Truth”; with Harvard students on “ It would have starved a gnat” and “It got so I could take the Trick” ;with national security expert, Anne Marie Slaughter on “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”; with High School and Middle School teachers on “I’m Nobody” ; (with Annette Bening and Yo Yo Ma) (filmed at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, in Houghton Rare Book Library and in Hauser Studio
With New York citizens and Boston High School teachers on “Song of Myself” and sense of self (filmed in Brooklyn Bridge Park and in Harvard Yard)
With actress and author Lena Dunham and with spoken word poet, Sarah Kay, on Edna St. Vincent Millay and falling in and out of love (to be filmed in Brooklyn)
Source: House Oversight Committee release, November 2025