Meanings
- uncountableA genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.
Moreover, she links Instapoetry to the #metoo movement speaking out against sexual harassment and exploitation, and sees in the new voices of the female Instapoets an outlet for the expression of the female sexual gaze.
2020, Bronwen Thomas, Literature and Social Media, unnumbered page2 more examples
Literature itself is undergoing a similar transition. Indeed, as someone who once read a book a day for a whole year, the current wave of instapoetry, tiny tales, and Tumblr posts has introduced me to an interesting new dimension to storytelling and to engaging with one's audience.
2019, Shashi Tharoor, "Foreword", in Manoj Pandey, The Legacy of Nothing, unnumbered pageMeanwhile, The Washington Post considered the advent of Instapoetry to be a turning point for the art form—this was a new genre of poetry created for a global, online audience, and its legacy would be contingent on virality: […]
2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146
Origin
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Instapoetry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Instapoetry
“Instapoetry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Instapoetry. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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