JEFFERSON CITY, MO. (AP) -- Gov. Jay Nixon has created an advisory committee to help him select a new Missouri poet laureate.
The two-year term of Missouri's first poet laureate, Walter Bargen, is ending in January.
Nixon is taking applications for a new poet laureate through Jan. 14.
He has appointed a five-person advisory committee - with first lady Georganne Nixon as the honorary chairwoman - to help him make a decision.
Nixon says the next poet laureate must be a resident of Missouri, a published poet, active in the poetry community and willing to promote poetry at appearances at public schools and libraries.
The poet laureate also is to compose an original poem in honor of Missouri.
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