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Instapoetry

Instapoetry noun: a genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.

Noun

Instapoetry (uncountable)

  1. A genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.
    • 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 page
    • Meanwhile, 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 of Instapoetry

Blend of Instagram + poetry.

Words formed from Instapoetry

Questions about Instapoetry

What does Instapoetry mean?
Instapoetry means a genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.
What part of speech is Instapoetry?
Instapoetry is a noun.

Words near Instapoetry in the dictionary

  1. instantons
  2. instants
  3. Instapoem
  4. Instapoems
  5. Instapoet
  6. Instapoetry
  7. Instapoets
  8. instar
  9. instarred
  10. instarring
  11. instars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Instapoetry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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