This study aims to overcome the limitations of textbooks. Lesson textbooks often only provide basic material about writing poetry without developing how creative it is. This makes the learners difficult in the process of writing poetry. Therefore, the solution of the problem is to develop poetry writing materials based on the poet's experience to be used in the learning process. This research method is using research and development. Based on the results of the interview can be concluded that the ability to write poetry is determined based on an understanding of the elements and forms of poetry writing as well as poet's experience. The process of writing poetry taken through several stages: (1) seeking ideas based on experience; (2) to process the idea by looking for impression and implied message; (3) deepening into the heart and mind; (4) conduct the process of contemplation and reflection, by living, thinking, feeling and interpreting every event; (5) begin the writing process by concreting the experience; (6) revise the poetry product. The developed teaching materials are presented from the basic competencies of the knowledge and skill competence learning. Based on experiments on teaching materials developed it is known that the average value of the ability to write poetry exceeds the minimum criterion score, so that the teaching materials used have been effective. Teaching materials can help learners learn activities become more independent, get a positive response from the content, appearance, and use of language.
