Poetry is not bound by sentence and paragraph structures, context, or grammar. When you write poetry, you can throw all the rules out the window and create a piece of art. What sets poetry apart from other types of writing? Mindful Imagery, while other creative writing forms may use vivid imagery to create pictures in the reader's mind, no other form comes close to what can be achieved with imagery in poetry writing. Most writing forms attempt to explain something - a scene, a situation, an idea, a set of instructions, an experience. Poetry doesn't bother to explain. It shows. It paints a picture, takes a snapshot, and then pulls you into it. Eady took a poetry workshop with Michael Harper, and it was the one day that Michael played jazz music