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Oklahoma’s True Poet Laureate: Woody Guthrie
rompoetry:Looking through my archives and found this–written my last year of high school teaching and before the Woody Guthrie Center was open. Originally posted on ROMP! ROMP! ROMP!: My students have...
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Poetry Festival is Saturday!
The first ROMP Poetry Festival is Saturday, April 5, from 2-5 p.m. We will ring in April, National Poetry Month, with a poetry parade from the museum, across the haymeadow, to the ROMP Shop . . . and...
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It’s Not a Bed Sheet
ROMP is at Oklahoma City University today for the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English conference. The spring conference focuses on poetry, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tracy Smith and Oklahoma’s...
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A Garish Setting Forth
One of the definitions for “parade” comes from the Italian “parate,” meaning a” garish setting forth.” When I decided we would have a poetry parade at our first ROMP Poetry Festival, I had no idea what...
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Poetry Post Office
Tiffany and others at the Poetry Letter Office NOTE: The following was written and given to me after our festival. If you attended and would also like to make a comment, please reply in the Comments...
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It’s In Your Pocket!
When I first started having my high school students participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day, they thought I was nuts. Carry a poem around in my pocket for a day? What? Take it home and read it to...
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Red Ferns and Red Hounds
Red fern found in Spring Valley, near Lost City, 2-24-13 If you don’t believe a story Can stay with you in the background Like a picturesque tree you pose before For all of your life, witness this: I...
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Poeta Mundanus
Boys reading their poetic fortunes at the Red Fern Festival The academic world of poetry has never interested me as much as the mundane world of poetry. Some people might balk at putting “poetry” and...
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The First of May
The verbena comes back, As the wind makes its way Down the same dirt track, In the same sort of day. The fleabane claims the field As the rain makes spring feet In the garden newly tilled Before the...
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Poems at the Tastin’
Tonight, May 3, I will be writing poems-in-a-minute during the Taste of Claremore event downtown. I will set up shop in the outdoor foyer area at the Cranberry Merchant. For one dollar, you can give me...
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WWWW
Calling all women who love WINE . . . WILDFLOWERS . . . WRITING. We will be doing all three at the Wine, Women & Wildflowers Workshop on May 17, Saturday, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. The photo on the left...
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Fair warning: Get your scary poem on!
Got a scary poem in you? Let it come out. The Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry is hosting a Scary Poem Contest that includes a reading of your poem at the Oct. 25 Dark & Scary event at the museum....
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Upcoming Workshop: Turn an ordinary chair into a poetic work of art
Enjoy a creative morning at the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry and design a poetry-art chair. ROMP has several on display featuring the works of Whitman, Dickinson, Sexton, Yeats, Bukowski and more....
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Upcoming Workshop: Turn an ordinary chair into a poetic work of art
ROMPoetry:It’s Saturday! Sign up today! Originally posted on R.O.M.P.: Enjoy a creative morning at the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry and design a poetry-art chair. ROMP has several on display...
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Writing Workshop with Oklahoma Book Award Winner!
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish On Wednesday, Oct. 8, the museum will host a poetry workshop taught by Oklahoma Book Award winner and professor Jeanetta Calhoun Mish. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a...
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Fall in the Country . . . and into Writing
Come out to the country for autumn, for fall, for a unique writing experience with Oklahoma Book Award winner Jeanetta Calhoun Mish. Mish will be offering a writing workshop for people of all ages and...
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Enjoy Art, Entertainment and High Tea at LGAA Fall Art Tour
Willard Stone: “Something to Believe In” The Locust Grove Arts Alliance is hosting a Fall Art Tour that includes the Willard Stone Museum, the Gourds, Etc. Art Studio of Verna Bates and the Rural...
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Enjoy Art, Entertainment and High Tea at LGAA Fall Art Tour
ROMPoetry:It’s This Saturday! Come to LG: Small-town heart & Big-town art Originally posted on R.O.M.P.: Willard Stone: “Something to Believe In” The Locust Grove Arts Alliance is hosting a Fall...
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Dark & Scary
It’s almost here! Dark and Scary at the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry. We will check out the museum, have cookies and cocoa, and tell scary stories around the campfire when it gets dark. DARK &...
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ROMP Tellabration
Tellabration is an international celebration of storytelling with events happening in November the weeks and weekends before Thanksgiving. The Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry will host a Tellabration...
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