Her work touches on love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, and migration. Here are seven poets to follow, read, and invest in if you love Rupi Kaur. Her most recent book, home body (2020), debuted at 1 on bestsellers lists across the world. Kaur is only one writer in this new wave of young, female poets sharing their work online and writing about the things that many of us have been through-growing up, juggling identities, maintaining relationships, and painful loss. The simplicity of her writing paired with beautiful images, and discussion of the female experience spoke to me, like so many of her 3.7 million instagram followers. Rupi closes her poem with a beautiful metaphor of a show. I believe it is to really highlight her opening up about how she is not perfect and showing her readers that they can be too. I’m not ashamed to admit that prior to discovering Kaur's work I didn’t think poetry was for me. ( line 13 ) This use of punctuation is to emphasize this line and show her experiences of her youth. Kaur has been heralded as being at the forefront of a new generation of instapoets - artists who are using social media to spread their work and images to reach a new audience. So, if your copy of Milk and Honey is as dog-eared as mine here seven poets you’ll love if you like Rupi Kaur. She’s an online phenomenon opening up poetry to so many. tags: big-hearted, hopeless-romantic, left-empty, too-generous. She has since released The Sun and Her Flowers, received Sunday Times and New York Times Number One Bestseller status, and won the GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017. The acclaimed poet and creative shot to fame with her debut collection Milk and Honey in 2014. Whether you’re a die-hard poetry fan or have little interest in the art you’ll almost certainly have heard of Rupi Kaur.
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