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EVENT CANCELED – 2025 SLPC Contests Award Ceremony
May 16 @ 6:30 pm
EVENT CANCELLATION NOTICE:
Due to the severe weather and its impact on road conditions and safety, this event has been canceled. Please watch for a reschedule date to be announced. Stay safe!
The event will be held in-person at High Low and also streamed live to this event page.
Saint Louis Poetry Center celebrates the winners of the 2025 poetry contests, including the Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students and the James H. Nash Poetry Contest.
Light refreshments will be served.
SPECIAL THANKS
The Hopkins Contest would not be possible without the efforts and support of volunteer contest coordinator and local poet Emily Koehn. Thank you!
The Nash Contest would not be possible without the efforts and support of volunteer contest coordinator and local poet Ted Mathys. Thank you!
And special thanks to our spring 2025 student intern Ezra Harris (Metro Academic and Classical High School) for supporting both contests!
2025 HOPKINS CONTEST WINNERS & HONORABLE MENTIONS
Selected by 2025 contest judge Niki Herd
FIRST PLACE
Scarlet Brothers, Nerinx Hall High School
Meanwhile on Earth
SECOND PLACE
Isabelle Cox-Garleanu, MICDS
To Believe
THIRD PLACE
Lucy Divis, Metro Academic & Classical High School
Alphabet Homily
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Isabelle Cox-Garleanu, MICDS
romanian rhapsody
Scarlet Brothers, Nerinx Hall High School
Imagine I Make it Out Alive
Bera Ozkaya, Gateway Science Academy
Fishermen at Sea
2025 NASH CONTEST WINNER & FINALIST
Selected by 2025 contest judge Daniel Borzutzky
FIRST PLACE
Jill Mceldowney
Paradise Woods
FINALIST
Oliver
desertification poem
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