Rupi Kaur and "Instapoetry"

                                               

Rupi Kaur (born 4 October 1992) is an Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, and author. Kaur rose to fame on Instagram and Tumblr through sharing her short visual poetry.

She received widespread popularity, after the publication of her debut book Milk and Honey (2014), which went on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on The New York Times Best Seller list. In 2017, Kaur released her second book, The Sun and Her Flowers, leading her to be named on the BBC's 100 Women in 2017. Kaur's third poetry collection, home body, was released on Nov. 17, 2020.^[2][3]

Her work explores relationships, the immigrant experience, and sexual trauma and is considered to be at the forefront of Instapoetry.^[4][5][6] In 2019, The New Republic named Kaur the "Writer of the Decade"