Craft: Write from impulse and not rules.

Davenport, Schulz, Sappho/Carson, "The Exact Diagrams of German Professors," Bishop

Think of a Magic 8-Ball of poetry: shake it and the blue triangle says “Show Don’t Tell,” “Have You Earned This Image?,” “No You May Not Speak Until Everyone In the Workshop Have Critiqued Your Work,” and so on. 

These are the commonly-assumed rules to poetry as disseminated in workshops and MFA programs: that poetry should be written in lines, that it s…