Some Ways to Make a Good Poem Better

I'm getting ready for my workshop at The Writers Place in Kansas City this morning, and here is my outline:
Workshop: Jewels, Condors, and Cinnamon: Writing Surprises into Poetry

Writers create new ways of looking at the commonplace, so techniques of creating surprises help draw readers into the exploration of a poem.

• Clarity is a first principle;
• Consistency is the second: continuity of voice, form, logic
•       Writing poetry is the opposite of writing clichés
•       Writing poetry is a form of travel writing, going beyond the ordinary
•        "Poetry is to language what ballet is to walking." Valery

        Ways to add excitement are

• topic,
• vocabulary,
• narrative,
• sentence structure,
• pacing,
• sound