Should MIT teach poetry?

After MIT dropped its Advanced Poetry Workshop, students got in a huff. Now, John Lundberg at the Huffington Post wonders what the renowned Tech school could actually learn from poetry:

Writing a poem not only requires the poet to be creative; it requires that she constantly subject that creativity to the pressure of analysis. Good poets learn to let alternating moments of creation and analysis lead them beyond the boundaries of their understanding. Couldn't scientists -- who engage in their own, more deliberate process of creativity and analysis -- benefit from experiencing poetry's far more concentrated creative process? More simply, wouldn't scientists benefit from learning how to better harness their creativity?