ROCKLAND — In honor of National Poetry Month in April, Good Tern Café Gallery will once again hold a mail-in exhibition of poetry and art exhibition.  

The Good Tern Café Gallery usually features work by coop members, but for this exhibition, entries are open to the larger community. Past years' entries were received from as far away as South Carolina and western Ontario, according to a news release.

Lois Anne, curator of Good Tern Café Gallery said in the news release: "I'd like to invite anyone of any age who is interested to submit a piece or two or three for Poetry and Art IV, A Mail Art Exhibition. Our poetry, visual art about poetry, drawings inspired by poetry, poems inspired by sculptures, poems by artists, and visual art by poets, anything that fits on a postcard. There are so many possibilities that this could be quite exciting "

Poetry and Art IV, 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 the theme of poetry and art.

2 — Entries may be signed or anonymous.

3 — Entries must be received by March 31.

4 — Send to: Lois Anne, curator of poetry and art, P.O. 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 retrieved from the Good Tern. For for those out of the area, send an SASE along with entry.

The exhibition will run for the month of April.

The Good Tern Coop and Café at 750 Main Street in Rockland is open Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Email loisanne1001@aol.com with Poetry and Art in the subject line, or call the Good Tern at 594-8822 for more information.