Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry

The Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry is an interactive museum where the common person and poetry meld. Instead of stop-stand-stare museum exhibits, at ROMP you will find ways to interact with and personalize poetry. The museum theme changes each year. The 2019 theme is In the Bones. Explore all of the ways that bones serve as a foundation, a way of living, a structure and theme of our lives. The displays ask you to think creatively and to take your place in the poetry populace. ROMP is located in a small building in rural northeastern Oklahoma, a few miles west of Locust Grove. The brainchild of poet Shaun Perkins, ROMP began with a dream of poetry machines that turned into a crazy idea to create a humble rural space that is a place for the all people. The ROMP mission is to bring poetry and people together, to advance creativity and literacy and to provide a space where people can have an experience of poetry.