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Instapoet en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of Instagram + poet.

Meanings

1. A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.
   • 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.” 2020, Mike Chaser, Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram:
   • 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. 2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146:
   • Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers. 2020, Simon Murray, Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media, unnumbered page:

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