poetry vs genre

poetry and genre both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
poetry	Yes	No	No	No
genre	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, genre is a hypernym of poetry; that is, genre is a word with a broader meaning than poetry:

Other hypernyms of poetry include literary genre, writing style.

poetry (noun)	genre (noun)
literature in metrical form	a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling	a kind of literary or artistic work
	a style of expressing yourself in writing