As the wheels on the bus go round, more art and poetry will drive into the community.

Visual and written art will become one with Broadsided Press’ art submissions for Moscow’s third annual event Broadsides of the Bus exhibit that puts art on the sides of Moscow buses.

Authors from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) met in Moscow to write submissions for Broadsides of the Bus. Four pieces of writing were selected, and now visual artists from the area are asked to create a piece to go along with the writing, said Elizabeth Bradfield, founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press.

Any medium is acceptable for the submission, and the work will be scanned or photographed to then be combined with the selected poem and displayed on the inside panel of the Moscow buses, said Alexandra Teague, a Moscow-based editor for Broadsided Press and assistant professor of poetry at the University of Idaho.

“The idea is to leave the photo of the piece and the poem on the side of the bus,” Teague said. “It brings art into the area.”

Broadsided Press combines visual and written art in order to spread art around the community, Teague said.

“We’re such a visual society, so by adding the visual aspect we can maybe have someone who is visual read and think about a poem,” Bradfield said.

Each month, Broadsided Press has a poem submission with an artist’s response, Teague said. That collaboration is then made into a PDF that can be printed on regular letter paper and posted around town and in businesses, Bradfield said.

“The goal is to get literature into public spaces,” she said. “Make the landscape you walk through a little more lovely.”

Broadsided Press was created in 2005 with a mission to get art onto the streets, Bradfield said. The organization has several annual special features, including one called “Responses.”

“We’ll ask artists to put work on our website that speaks of an event, usually environmental, that happened around the world recently. Then we have authors respond to the art,” she said. “Most of the time artists respond to writers. It’s thrilling to see what can be created; the two parts together create a whole.”

Bradfield said she is excited to have the partnership with Moscow, because it blends the local and national side of art.

“Smaller communities can give the art a more intimate feel because you’ll often know the artists or author of the work you see on the side of the bus,” she said.

Art response submissions to the poems will be accepted through 5 p.m. on April 30. More information is available at http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/arts/Pages/call-to-artists.aspx.