Explore #poetry on instagram

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Follow an #Instapoet

Below is a long list of #instapoets (poets who post work on Instagram) to explore. These poets generally share original content unless otherwise noted. If reposting work, make sure to tag them.

Followers: In the millions

FollowERS: 200K to 1 MILLION

Followers: 100K to 200K

Followers: 50k to 100K

Followers: 1000 to 50K

Followers: Less than 1000

Read more about social media poetRY

• Using Instagram to Teach Poetry: The Genre of Instapoetry Can Be a Useful Tool for Engaging Students and Improving Their Literacy and Media Literacy Skills (Edutopia, 7.8.19)
• Instagram Poetry and Our Poetry Worlds (Poetry Foundation, 4.24.19)
• Roll Your Eyes All You Like, But Instagram Poets Are Redefining the Genre for Millennials (Mashable, 10.19.18)
• How Instagram Saved Poetry: Social Media is Turning an Art From into an Industry (The Atlantic, 10.15.18)
• Don't Call Them Instagram Poets: How the Social Media Outlet is Providing a Platform for a New Generation of Authors—and What They Want You to Know (Marie Claire, 5.3.18)
• Rupi Kaur is Kicking Down the Doors of Publishing (The New York Times, 10.5.17)
• The Life of an Instagram Poet (The New Yorker, 3.8.17)
• Instapoetry: The Power of Words in a Techno-Centric World (The Grind, 2.24.17)
• Poets of Instagram: How Social Media is Making Poetry Hip Again (Hindustan Times, 10.6.16)
• Poetry is Having a Renaissance on Social Media (The Daily Dot, 6.21.16)
• Instagram Poets Society: Selfie Age Gives New Life and Following into Poetry (The Guardian, 2.26.16)
• Web Poets’ Society: New Breed Succeeds in Taking Verse Viral (The New York Times, 11.7.15)
• Miami Poet R.M. Drake Reinvigorates Enthusiasm for Poetry Through Instagram (Miami Herald, 3.25.15)

Check out Published Print Collections

As poets have become popular on Instagram, many of them have also gotten publishing deals and had their works published in print. Our GUHSD libraries have some of these poetry books for checkout, and they are very popular. See what is available at your library!

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