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Poet Populist Peter Payack, who can often be spotted wearing a black leather jacket as he zips down Mass Ave on his bicycle, has been spreading poetry across Cambridge for over thirty years. But this fall, the city decided to formalize his role by electing him as its first-ever Poet Populist...
Under his new title, Payack is expected to honor poetry and foster an appreciation for it by spreading it to new circles in the community, according to Jason M. Weeks, the executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council and a member of the Poet Populist advisory committee...
...thrilled to death to be elected Poet Populist because I’ve always seen myself as a populist who’s also a poet,” says Payack, “I’ve always tried to take poetry out of books and libraries and put it into the community...
...Payack, an eccentric Cambridge resident who has had over 1,000 of his poems appear in publications including The New York Times and Rolling Stone, has never been the kind of poet to stalk coffeehouses and hide away in the stacks...
...course, but it's been included in the Oxford English Dictionary since 1897. But since last month's tragedy, which left an estimated 160,000 dead, the term has taken on a whole new gravity?and manufacturers and advertisers have quickly adjusted. As Global Language Monitor's Paul Payack puts it, "The word tsunami will be the subject of considerable discretion before being used in anything other than a most serious manner." Here are some changes since the disaster...