Instapoet

Noun

Instapoet (plural Instapoets)

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.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