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Embracing Poetry in the Classroom: Seven Provocative Approaches

Discover innovative strategies to infuse poetry into high school English classes through Shaun Perkins’ curated program. Located at the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry, this approach inspires creativity, from the Hero’s Journey to sidewalk poetry. Engage students with techniques like poetic journaling, nature-inspired activities, and playful wordplay. Challenge traditional views on poetry interpretation and create a vibrant, noisy classroom atmosphere. Join us in transforming how poetry is experienced and written, making it a lively part of students' daily lives.

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Embracing Poetry in the Classroom: Seven Provocative Approaches

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  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.

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