ROCKLAND — April is National Poetry Month, and libraries, area bookstores and other venues are offering special exhibitions and events in honor of this. Lois Anne, the Curator of the Good Tern Café Gallery, is planning to have a mail in an exhibition of poetry and art again this year since the past four annual exhibitions and related events were so well received. The exhibition will run for the month of April.

The Good Tern Café Gallery usually features work by coop members, but for a mail art exhibition open it up to the larger community. Past years' entries were received from as far away as South Carolina, Florida, the West Coast and western Ontario.

"I'd like to invite anyone of any age who is interested in submitting a piece or two or three for Poetry & Art V, A Mail Art Exhibition." Lois Anne's invitation continues in a news release, "Your poetry, visual art, poems inspired by sculptures, visual art about poetry, drawings inspired by poetry, poems by artists, visual art by poets, etc, etc, anything that fits on a postcard. There are so many possibilities that this could be quite exciting "

Poetry & Art V, a mail art exhibition, submission guidelines are as follows:
1 — Make a poem, painting, drawing, collage, or other creation on a postcard [or in an envelope] relating however loosely to the theme of poetry & art.
2 — Entries may be signed or anonymous.
3 — Entries must be postmarked by March 26, 2016.
4 — Send to - Lois Anne, Curator of Poetry & Art, PO Box 1661, Rockland ME 04841

* For a mail art exhibition, each participant creates a piece on a postcard and sends it in. The work is usually not returned. However, for three weeks after the exhibition is taken down, the pieces will be available to be picked up at the Good Tern [or for those out of the area, send an SASE along with your entry].

The Good Tern Coop and Café at 750 Main Street - Email loisanne1001@aol.com with Poetry & Art in the subject line or call the Good Tern at 594-8822 for more information.