Popular Poets you need to follow

Poetry is an art that has only evolved to stay relavant with changing attention spans. For those who love reading poetry, here are some of the most popular online poets you can follow so that some literature comes into your news feed daily. They usually have short posts with great depth so you can easily enjoy a verse at any time during the day.

This poet is a fitness trainer as well and her posts are body positive and feminist. Her poems don't rhyme but state important truths that we all need to consider. Watch out for her captions!

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This poet posts not just her own poems but lovely quotes, or pieces of prose she wrote. She encourages positive self image and confidence through her words, which make following her a positive addition to one's news feed.

She has 2 books published, Where to Begin and Heart Talk, both which are as encouraging as her posts.

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Atticus Poetry

Atticus shows us you don't need a poem to capture a profound thought, whether their posts are just a sentence or a whole poem. Atticus can make us feel or think or question. His theme is often women, the love and admimration he feels for them and the power they hold. He's got one book published.
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Michael Faudet

Has the poetic talent of twisting words beautifully. Besides love and heartbreak, they speak of sensuality, writing and the power of words and how they haunt writers. While most write on the love they feel for others, and they are no exception, they also write on their love of words; perfect poet for the poets.

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Erin Hanson

She's a poet whose poems you'll want to read aloud. They often rhyme and the words have such a pretty flow to them you can't help but speak when reading. Some of them tend to end wistfully or slightly sadly and some speak of inner power. Like poets of yesteryears, her love of nature is evident in their words and the way she points out humans are just a part of nature is very smooth. She's published three poetry anthologies.
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Rupi Kaur
Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet of Indian descent. She published a book of poetry and prose entitled Milk and Honey in 2015 and has one more coming out in Oct 2017. Her poems have themes of violence, love, loss, and femininity. She's also an illustrator and her posts have her simple illustrations that add to the story.
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Lang Leav

A poet whose poems you would not want to read aloud as she probably captures feelings so deep within you won't feel comfortable voicing them. She writes on falling in love and all the emotions that go with it, from joy to pain, from hurt to flattery. She's published three books on poetry and one novel recently.
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The Poetry Bandit/ Jon Lupin

A poet with short poems and wonderful imagery, Lupin can evoke love or resentment in under 50 words. While some of his posts are just bitter or wistful words, they'll evoke some relatable feelings none-the-less. They have a way of twisting words and phases cleverly.
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Christopher Poindexter

Though his poems rarely rhyme, they capture life from the observer's view: about things he's witnessed to fleeting feelings to deep love. Many of his fans have tattooed his poems and he puts up pictures of these tattoos as well.
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Tyler Knott Gregson
A poet and a photographer, his posts are varied as are the topics of his poems. He voices and his musings in his verses have no consistant theme and some might even contradict. Most of his posts are pictures he's taken, sometimes of handwritten poems. As of this year, he has three books published.
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