Instapoet

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.

Currently, no Instapoet has a higher profile than Rupi Kaur, the Punjabi-born Sikh Canadian whom Rolling Stone has called the “queen of Instapoets” and Fashion Magazine the “pop star of poetry.”

Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers.