While Instagram is typically an app used to post day-to-day moments around friends, family, and other interesting events, writers are now taking advantage of its picture platform to publish their work to the public--particularly to teenage and young adult audiences. Their feeds are mostly filled with samples from their work to attract potential readers. Instagram poets who have stood out on the app for their work include Reyna Biddy (@reynabiddy), R.H. Sin (@r.h.sin), Rupi Kaur (@rupikaur_), and so many others.
R.H. Sin released A Beautiful Composition of Broken this summer as an independent book filled with various collections of poetry. He released samples of his book prior to its release through Instagram, each post seeming vague and suggesting the future release of a whole anthology. Through Instagram, the effect of compiling a whole collection of poetry gives readers something to unexpectedly look forward to.
R.H. Sin released A Beautiful Composition of Broken this summer as an independent book filled with various collections of poetry. He released samples of his book prior to its release through Instagram, each post seeming vague and suggesting the future release of a whole anthology. Through Instagram, the effect of compiling a whole collection of poetry gives readers something to unexpectedly look forward to.
Some samples from A Beautiful Composition of Broken that Sin had released on Instagram prior to its summer release included “She stopped running from the rain / When she realized she was the storm.
I could truly feel the effect that R.H. Sin had prepared to build up to the point where a physical copy of the book was like holding all his posts on Instagram. The value of A Beautiful Composition of Broken was in a way, powerful, to me as a reader.
Reyna Biddy is also another Instagram poet, whose literary career has soared from the online platform. Featured on R&B artist Kehlani’s new album SweetSexySavage by reciting poetry in the album intro, her promotion by a singer only boosted her career even further. On her Instagram profile, her poetry centers around self-reflection and an open-minded outlook toward the world. Her authentic self radiates from the line samples she posts on Instagram and her published book, I Love My Love.
I could truly feel the effect that R.H. Sin had prepared to build up to the point where a physical copy of the book was like holding all his posts on Instagram. The value of A Beautiful Composition of Broken was in a way, powerful, to me as a reader.
Reyna Biddy is also another Instagram poet, whose literary career has soared from the online platform. Featured on R&B artist Kehlani’s new album SweetSexySavage by reciting poetry in the album intro, her promotion by a singer only boosted her career even further. On her Instagram profile, her poetry centers around self-reflection and an open-minded outlook toward the world. Her authentic self radiates from the line samples she posts on Instagram and her published book, I Love My Love.
Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey is now one of the most bestselling books in the poetry industry and across the nation. Milk and Honey approaches raw topics such as assault, rape, abuse, and trauma. However, what makes this anthology stand out even more is its capability to incorporate hope amongst tragedy as well. The prose is poignant and simple, but descriptive in such a phenomenal way as well. The fact that Kaur’s touching prose rose from technology onto published paper truly emphasizes the power that Instagram can give to writers today.
By transitioning from an online presence to a physical publication, the power of Instagram poetry is a new literary revolution for this generation.