Instapoet

noun

Etymology

Blend of Instagram + poet.

  1. derived from ποιητής
  2. derived from poēta
  3. derived from poete
  4. inherited from poete
  5. compounded as instapoet — “Instagram + poet

Definitions

  1. A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.

    • 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.”
    • Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Instapoet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA