The San Juan County Land Bank is celebrating its 25th anniversary and is inviting the community to submit poetry.

What inspires you to get outside? In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, as well as National Poetry Month, the land bank invites the community to submit nature-themed poems for a poetry trail.

The land bank, along with its partners, San Juan Island Library, San Juan Island National Historical Park, San Juan Island Trails Committee, Lime Kiln Point State Park and Friends of Lime Kiln Society, will display poems along trails through Limekiln and Deadman Bay Preserves, Lime Kiln Point State Park and at American Camp during the month of April.

Poems can be anything from haiku to rhyming to free verse, original work or a favorite published author, but must be 14 lines or less, due to layout restrictions.  All ages welcome.

Poems can be dropped off (printed on 8 ½ x 11 paper) to the San Juan Library front desk or emailed to clacher@sjlib.org. Poems must have the author and title in order to be accepted.

Deadline for submissions is Saturday, Feb. 21, with a maximum of 30 poems to be chosen.

For more information, phone Tanja at 370-7655.