What makes a poem good?

[ellajam]

What makes a poem good?

Learning to write them instead of wasting time with the same old stupid questions.

I don't think there is a more important question in the writing of poetry than "what makes a poem good?"

An old friend of mine dedicated his life to answering that question and even wrote this short manual to help others:

http://www.the-rathouse.com/files/prosody.pdf

Thanks, that's a window that will stay open a good while.