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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...
...made you laugh, it made you cry, and it made you cheer.” “Debaters” follows the true story of historically black Wiley College in 1930s Texas. Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at the college and a well-known poet, coaches a select team of students to the national debate championship. In reality, Wiley competed against the University of Southern California for the national title; in the film, the small college goes up against Harvard. Why the change in schools? “Harvard just sounded better, to be quite honest...
...South. Yet the movie itself, which takes place in 1935, is not nearly as courageous as the historical characters whose story it tells.The plot originates in the real-life story of Wiley College, whose debate team rose to top levels under the guidance of the soon-to-be-named poet laureate of Liberia, Melvin Tolson (Denzel Washington). Three students (Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, Nate Parker), each gifted in their own way, work through the national college debate circuit, culminating with a fateful competition against the dear old Crimson.In many ways, the film is a sure thing. In addition to acting...
...telling of Nan's story, however, that the book really falls flat. Rather predictably, the swift transition from starving student-poet to middle-class business owner leaves him spiritually barren. He spends grueling days behind a fiery wok pondering how to balance his duty as a breadwinner with his duty as a poet. His writer friends are getting noticed, and he's not. (If you read his verses, appended at the end of the book, you'll see why. "Don't blame me if I am such a man/ who goes to ball games as a major fan," Nan chimes...