Poets in Kitsap, Jefferson, and Mason counties are needed to enter the regional poet contest at Collective Visions Gallery.

ARS POETICA 2014 is sponsored by Collective Visions Gallery, 331 Pacific Ave., Bremerton.

Deadline is Oct. 25 for all submittals.

Selected poems will be illustrated by CVG artists to be on exhibition on National Poetry Month in April 2014.

ARS POETICA 2014, the book, will be available in April for purchase and will include the selected poems and art by CVG artists.

ARS POETICA 2014 will be open to other venues in the community as well. Entry fee  $5, up to three poems may be submitted by each poet.

Those poems not selected by CVG will be offered to these other venues for their own exhibit.

For poem guideline submission details, please contact Beverly Hanson at photoartbybev@aol.com.