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Task Force advances three finalists for 2025 St. Louis poet laureate
Summary
The St. Louis City Poet Laureate Task Force voted March 17 to advance three candidates for public interviews and directed staff to notify applicants; the panel also decided to use five panel scores to determine finalists and discussed how to share feedback with applicants.
The St. Louis City Poet Laureate Task Force voted March 17, 2025, during a virtual meeting to advance three candidates — listed in the process as candidates 3, 4 and 5 — as finalists for the 2025 St. Louis poet laureate. The task force also voted to base finalist selection on five panel scores rather than six and agreed to conduct the finalist interviews in public.
The decision restores the city’s poet laureate program to a public appointment process and sets the next steps for scheduling interviews and notifying applicants. Task force members said they wanted transparency about the selection while balancing…
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