As is the case with many other poets, I came to this language through pain, and the search for coherent expression of that pain. What I think is fascinating is how much of my business school education applies to my work as a poet. Obviously, there's Marketing - sending out your work to the magazines most likely to consider publishing it, writing grant proposals so alluring as to be funded. There's a little bit of Finance in that you learn how to live on next to nothing, paring your paid hours down as much as you can to get the free time to write. There is some Cost Accounting - figuring out the weight of paper to use that will be both heavy enough to run through the printer and light enough to keep your postage costs down.
Sales is the most unrelenting aspect of poetry.
Management and Behavior applies to everything. You think about the big picture. You start a reading series and bring famous poets you admire to your town, and pay them, which they will remember next time you need a recommendation to an MFA program. You don't try to please a particular customer or tailor your work to a market. You create the market, and don't worry if it's small.