Ποιεῖν, ποίησις, ποιητική. Poiein means “to make or do”; poiesis is the abstract noun built on this verb: “making, production”; poietike is the adjective based on the abstract noun: “productive.” A poietes (ποιητής) is a person who makes something; a poiema (ποίημα) is the object made. Plato talks about the poietes of a bed in Republic X, and of the Demiourgos as the poietes of the universe in Timaeus 28c, but generally poietes and poiema refer to literary productions.

(PREUS, A. Historical dictionary of ancient Greek philosophy. Second Edition ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)