The Poetry Friendly Classroom

1. The Poetry Friendly Classroom With 7 Hostile Verbs

2. 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

3. 1. Sneak Sneak in writing assignments that don’t start out as poetry. • Hero’s Journey • Listing: Grocery Landscape, CakeWalk, Photographs • Journaling: WCW Art

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

5. 3. Annoy Annoy the ssshers by having a poetry-noisy classroom. • Poetry Chairs/Furniture/Objects • Pryor Creek Anthology • Digital Poetry/Storytelling

6. 4. Abandon Abandon the notion that poetry must be interpreted. Let it just be. • ROMP • Wordplay (Cards, Wordle,Found poems) • Poem Caches

7. 5. Disturb Disturb the populace with classroom-extended poetry activities. • Nature JournalingImagery Search • Poem in Your Pocket Day • Poetry ContestsOWPOCTE • Poetry Out Loud

8. 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

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