Peter Payack is nearing the end of his term as Cambridge's first poet populist, an elected position designed to encourage the appreciation of poetry. Payack has been busy inventing the job, organizing a scavenger hunt for famous-poet sites, creating fortune cookies with original poems inside, visiting schools, and giving readings. Now he's working on his most ambitious project: the Cambridge Community Poem.
[From Cambridge, Mass., poet populist gathers submissions citywide to weave a verse - The Boston Globe]
2.20.2009
I don't know, Bunky, this sounds grim
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