Dear Jeffrey,
Larry has told me that you and a friend would like to contribute to my project (hallelujah and thank you a
million times, Jeffrey) and that I ought to write up a proposal asking for 500,000. This is wonderful. If this
comes to pass, the best way for that money to come, I think, is as a gift to Poetry in America, an initiative at
EdLabs at Harvard University. This will give me discretion over its disbursement to HarvardX and WGBH, but
this will be absolutely be a Harvard gift that will count as Campaign success and from which Harvard will take
some (but not as much)overhead. . So far the best finance people I've met are at EdLabs and they are happy to
manage these funds for me. There are other ways to give me this money that leave Harvard out, but my
Source: House Oversight Committee release, November 2025