Participate in our Newspaper Blackout Poetry Contest, and you could win a $100 gift certificate or an iPod Nano.

Pick any story from today’s issue of Oklahoman. Take a marker and black out lines from the story, leaving only the words you want to remain visible. Those words become your poetry.

Your poem can rhyme, or not. It can be a haiku, it could be a limerick (keep it clean), it could be free-form. We’ll have two categories: adult and youth (younger than 21). The top adult winner will receive a $100 gift certificate. The top youth winner will get an iPod Nano.

Once you create your poetry, send the entire newspaper page, along with your name, age, address, phone number and e-mail, to Newspaper Blackout Poetry Contest, Attn: Features, P.O. Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. Deadline to send in entries is March 8. Remember, it has to be from today’s issue of The Oklahoman. Other papers don’t count.