You have a different poplar then I do, here I call it popple and have all I can do to keep it from splitting when I make lumber out of it, let alone stay straight. I did use a fair amount of it making my shop few years ago, saw it then nail it........Forgot to mention, the main reason I get rid of Poplar when it falls is that it will resprout from the down trunk. So I cut it and bonfire most of it but keep the straight sections to split for kindling. It is a stringy nasty splitting wood other than the straight-straight sections that spilt easy. I have to let it sit in the pile a year before burning it to dry out enough to light. On the ground it sucks up moisture like a sponge, basically a nurse log, and it will not light off well.