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Though the office of the Poet Populist was only introduced to Cambridge last month, the idea of granting public recognition to a poet dates back to antiquity...
...Poet Populist job description, which includes a $1,000 stipend funded by the city of Cambridge, is deliberately ambiguous to accommodate the interests of the individual who is elected, according to Weeks...
While Payack is Cambridge’s first Poet Populist, the idea originated in Seattle, Wash., the only other U.S. city to boast such a program...
Seattle Poet Populist Program Manager Bob F. Redmond said the position was implemented in 1999 based on an idea by City Council President Nick Licata “to honor the literary arts and get the general public involved...
According to Redmond, who says that Seattle plans to franchise the idea by helping other cities implement similar initiatives, the Poet Populist program is all about the “hoi polloi...