Such a substantial change will take time. Because I teach in a program that offers the M.A. with an emphasis in Creative Writing, I'm biased, of course. The relative absence of literature from most M.F.A. programs deprives them of substance, of a foundation. Again, I'm generalizing, and can think of exceptions to my own blanket condemnation. Some M.F.A. programs are better than others, but I'm happy to be teaching in none of them.
Poems are emotional opinion.
I think the writing process is remarkably constant across genre boundaries. For me, the process is primary. I do my best to make myself available to language, to follow whatever comes. Things work essentially the same in prose as in poetry, at least for me. To know too much in advance about what I'm doing and where the writing is going would bore me into silence.