Instapoet

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noun

A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.

Scrabble 11

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nounInstapoet (plural Instapoets)

plural Instapoets

  1. A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.

    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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    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

    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

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Instapoet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Instapoet

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