Word: populistic
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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...
Although Payack has already carved a niche out for himself in the community, he can now further his plans to improve Cambridge life in his one-year term as Poet Populist...
...South Africa's Institute for Race Relations found the numbers of people living on less than $1 a day rose from 1.89 million in 1996 to 4.2 million in 2005. While Mbeki's support comes from the country's business community, Zuma, who never went to school, is a populist with a natural appeal to poor South Africans...