ROMP’s newest book club A Wildness Tonic, includes a variety of books–nonfiction, memoir, poetry, fiction, and short stories–addressing the human relationship to nature.
To encourage as much participation as possible, the book club meets on two different days and times. Pick the meetings you can attend. You do not have to attend every meeting. You can check out a book in advance to have it read by the meeting time.
You can sign up in person at the museum and check out a book at that time. The sign-up form is also at the bottom of this page.
Schedule 2025-2026 (subject to change)
We discuss the same book twice a month, 4th Monday at noon or 3rd/4th Thursday at 5:30 p.m.. Attend the one that you can!
Walden (selections) by Henry David Thoreau
Aug. 25, Noon
Aug. 28, 5:30
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Sept. 22, Noon
Sept. 25, 5:30
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Oct. 27, Noon (with Dr. Julie Pearson Little-Thunder)
Oct. 23, 5:30
Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver
Nov. 24, Noon
Nov. 20, 5:30
In This Ravishing World by Nina Schuyler
Dec. 22, Noon
Dec. 17, 5:30
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Jan. 26, Noon
Jan. 29, 5:30
Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
Feb.23, Noon
Feb. 26, 5:30
Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by Richard Adams, James Sturm & Joe Sutpin
Mar. 23, Noon
Mar. 26, 5:30
A Wildness Tonic: Nature Poetry by Shaun Perkins
Apr. 27, Noon
Apr. 30, 5:30
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
May 18, Noon
May 21, 5:30
“We need the tonic of wildness—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things by mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of Nature.”–HD Thoreau, “Walden”
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 