2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146:
Instapoets were 'responsible for poetry going viral at a time when the genre was alleged to be all but dead', Bustle magazine wrote in 2018, in a piece looking at whether new social media poets were undermining or reviving the art and traditions of literary poetry.
2020, Mike Chaser, Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram, page:
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.”
2020, Simon Murray, Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media, unnumbered page:
Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers.
2020, Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah, "Instapoets and YouTube Stars: Second Generation Immigrant Young Women Reimagining the Canadian National Narrative", Women and Popular Culture in Canada (ed. Laine Zisman Newman), page 185:
Though Anarkali is skeptical of the arranged marriage process, the episode ends with Instapoet Rupi Kaur's poem "Broken English."
2020, Bronwen Thomas, Literature and Social Media, unnumbered page:
Morever, she links Instapoetry to the #metoo movement speaking out against sexual harassment and exploitation, and sees in the new voices of the female Instapoets an outlet for the expression of the female sexual gaze.
