Instapoet

English

Etymology

Blend of Instagram +‎ poet.

Noun

Instapoet (plural Instapoets)

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

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