Rupi Kaur has attracted millions of followers for her online poetry, in part because of her elegant evocation of her experiences as an immigrant and a woman.
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Rupi Kaur
Rupi Kaur
The rise of Instapoetry
Date of birth
1992
Point of origin
India
Kaur moved to Canada with her family at four, settling in Brampton.
Rupi Kaur, reading from milk and honey, her first poetry collection.
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Rupi Kaur’s second poetry collection, the sun and her flowers, is patterned after the cyclical life of a flower in order to reflect on human growth.
Simon & Schuster
Rupi Kaur’s first collection of poetry, milk and honey, was initially self-published. It was quickly picked up by a publisher and has sold more than three million copies.
Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur
This drawing appears with her short poem "a gift" in the sun and her flowers.
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This drawing accompanies Rupi Kaur's poem, "first generation immigrant." It is a reflection on the experience of immigrants who, Kaur writes, "lose home at the risk of never finding home again."
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Rupi Kaur posted art and short poems online, and her work proved so popular she was able to publish her first collection of poetry before graduating from university.
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Rupi Kaur, 1992- , India.
Kaur moved to Canada with her family at four, settling in Brampton. She graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2015, having studied English. She had already self-published milk and honey, her first volume of poetry, in 2014. Her poems are composed and presented as mixed media, for social media: an elegant pairing of spare language and a minimal line drawing. In book form, Kaur has sold millions of copies of her collected poems.
