Definition of "poetry" []

• The art or work of a poet. (noun)
• Poems regarded as forming a division of literature. (noun)
• The poetic works of a given author, group, nation, or kind. (noun)
• A piece of literature written in meter; verse. (noun)
• Prose that resembles a poem in some respect, as in form or sound. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I have never been able to figure out what "SF poetry" is, what it's supposed to do, how it is different from other types of poetry**, so I can't join him in that argument, but I do think that the poetry that gets called SF Poetry ought to have a larger horizon, because by the standards of literature outside of the SF world, SF poetry makes most speculative fiction look daring and formally innovative."
• "  Although I remember fondly a poetry book someone made for me with his own Mad poetry… that was a way kewl present!!"
• "But waiving this, of which it was not my intention to speak, let me remark, that the reason why poetry will no longer go down with the public, _as poetry_, is, that the whole frame-work is worn out."