The Poetry Friendly Classroom

With 7 Hostile Verbs

Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry

• Shaun Perkins, curator

• High School English teacher 1988-2012

Locust Grove

2 miles north of Scenic Highway 412

45 miles east of Tulsa

ROMPOETRY.COM

1. Sneak

Sneak in writing assignments that don’t start out as poetry.

• Hero’s Journey

• Listing: Grocery Landscape, CakeWalk, Photographs

• Journaling: WCW Art

2. Vandalize

Vandalize the walls and sidewalks with poetry.• Sidewalk Poetry• Illustrated Lines from Poetry

3. Annoy

Annoy the ssshers by having a poetry-noisy classroom.

• Poetry Chairs/Furniture/Objects

• Pryor Creek Anthology

• Digital Poetry/Storytelling

4. Abandon

Abandon the notion that poetry must be interpreted. Let it just be.

• ROMP

• Wordplay (Cards, Wordle,Found poems)

• Poem Caches

5. Disturb

Disturb the populace with classroom-extended poetry activities.

• Nature Journaling Imagery Search

• Poem in Your Pocket Day

• Poetry Contests OWP OCTE

• Poetry Out Loud

6. Regress

Regress into childhood with crayons and silly art, concrete poems, journaling, music and poetry, baseball poetry and poker poetry.

• ROMP V-Day

• Field Poems

• Battin’ with the Bard

7. Creep

Creep around and write down poetic lines students say and make poems out of them.