Instapoet

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.

    "Instapoets were 'responsible for poetry going viral at a time when the genre was alleged to be all but dead', Bustle magazine wrote in 2018, in a piece looking at whether new social media poets were undermining or reviving the art and traditions of literary poetry."

Example

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"Instapoets were 'responsible for poetry going viral at a time when the genre was alleged to be all but dead', Bustle magazine wrote in 2018, in a piece looking at whether new social media poets were undermining or reviving the art and traditions of literary poetry."

Etymology

Blend of Instagram + poet.

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