There is a universality to her subjects which critics hardly deny and fans will affirm.
Such criticism has not hampered Kaur's advancement, though, either as a poet or as a social media icon. Roll your eyes all you like, but Instagram poets are redefining the genre for millennials Her linguistic minimalism (some poems are brief enough to fit Twitter's 140-character limit) has led to parody meme accounts (opens in a new tab), satirical tweets, and general critique (opens in a new tab). The 29-year-old Punjabi Canadian is almost ubiquitous with modern-day poetry and her influence is undeniable. 1 on the New York Times paperback fiction best-seller list (opens in a new tab), where it remained for 70 consecutive weeks (opens in a new tab).
Her second, the sun and her flowers, debuted at No. The first, milk and honey, notoriously outsold Homer's The Odyssey in 2016 (opens in a new tab). Her stardom, fostered on screens and reaching virality in 2015 (opens in a new tab), has led to the publication of several commercially successful books. Kaur has been credited as one of the first Insta-Poets (opens in a new tab), a category for writers (opens in a new tab) who publish poems that fit into the grid's perfect squares and are later profligated across hundreds of other accounts on Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram itself. By merely existing on social media, you have likely come across the work of Rupi Kaur (opens in a new tab): a multi-hyphenate known for her modern rendition of poetry and sprawling influence across Instagram and the internet.
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