1. Attend poetry readings in your community. 2. Reread some favorite poems. 3. Ask students to memorize poems and recite them. 4. Read poems aloud to your students. 5. Ask student to create their own anthology of favorite poems. 6. Introduce a new poetic form each week and give examples of poems that use — or reinvent the form. 7. Publish student poetry in your school newspaper or website. 8. Publish a special anthology of student poems. 9. Create a school poem asking each student to contribute a line. 10. Give students a list of words and ask them to create a poem using those words. 11. Invite students to write poems in response to their favorite poems (or to songs, TV shows, or artworks). 12. Encourage students to write in the voice of someone else. 13. Hold workshops where students discuss one another's work. 14. Tape students reading their own poems or poems by others; encourage them to share the tapes with parents and friends. 15. Decorate the classroom or the school with illustrated poems and pictures of poets. 16. Hold a poetry exchange day with poems wrapped as gifts. 17. Have your students write lines on small pieces of poster board and make them into poetry mobiles.
