Strategy for Developing Creative Thinking Skills in Learning to Write Poetry for Junior High School Students

This study aims to describe the strategy for developing creative thinking skills and functions benefits of in learning write poetry junior high school students. The method used was a descriptive with qualitative approach. Data collection carried out using interviews questionnaires. informants were 12 Indonesian Language Literature teachers East Java region, including Kediri, Gresik, Malang, Madura, Jombang, Banyuwangi, Lamongan, Kalimantan. data analysis technique discourse analysis, which analyzed oral written answer sentences. Based on data, it can be concluded that strategies writing by diverse, word picking, word-priming strategies, chat cards, cooperative (roulette writing), modeling, photos/events have been experienced, objects, directly seeing things, pictures, clusters, combination models, one event poem, picture ATM, Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD), keyword collections, experiences. From teacher, turned could improve based stages proposed Torrance, fluency, flexibility, originality, detail choosing themes, diction/word choice, rhymes, typography, imagery, mandate, cohesion stanzas.