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Rupi Kaur: An Old Soul with a Fresh Take on Life

Viral poet Rupi Kaur got her start on Instagram, where she would post photographs of her poetry for her online audience. In 2015 she published milk and honey, a collection of poetry and prose that was incredibly successful on the book market. It is primarily about survival, and highlights themes related to femininity, heartbreak, love, and sexual trauma. Rupi has made headlines for her activism and condemnation of the taboos surrounding menstruation. Many attribute a recent revival in poetry sales to her work, and it is clear that she has played a pivotal role in getting a whole generation of young people interested in the craft of poetry.

“We grew up in a time with every single one of our moves being recorded and documented forever and in that was this idea that we can’t make mistakes, but when that’s not happening, you’re also not growing.”

—Rupi Kaur

This excerpt is from The Book of Awesome Girls by Becca Anderson which is available now through Amazon and Mango Media.

RUPI KAUR: AN OLD SOUL WITH A FRESH TAKE ON LIFE

—Rupi Kaur

This excerpt is from The Book of Awesome Girls by Becca Anderson, which is available now through Amazon and Mango Media.

Rupi Kaur lyrical lines about love and life

Rupi Kaur is a bestselling Canadian poet as well as the illustrator of two collections of poetry. Born in the state of Punjab in India, she was raised in Canada from age four; she speaks and reads Punjabi as well as English but writes only in English. She started to draw at the age of five when her mother handed her a paintbrush and told her to draw her heart out. Kaur has said that she sees her life as an exploration of that artistic journey. After completing a degree in rhetoric studies, she published her first collection of poems, 2014’s milk and honey. The internationally acclaimed collection sold over a million copies and graced the New York Times bestseller list for over a year. Her second collection, the sun and her flowers, was published in 2017; throughout these collected works, she explores themes including love, loss, trauma, healing, migration, revolution, and the feminine. Her works have popularized Instapoetry, a new social-media driven genre of short and easily accessible poetry.

it is a blessing
to be the color of Earth
do you know how often
flowers confuse me for home

rupi kaur

This excerpt is from The Book of Awesome Women Writers by Becca Anderson, which is available now through Amazon and Mango Media.

Rupi Kaur lyrical lines about love and life

Rupi-Kaur-about — https://rupikaur.com/about/

Rupi Kaur is a bestselling Canadian poet as well as the illustrator of two collections of poetry. Born in the state of Punjab in India, she was raised in Canada from age four; she speaks and reads Punjabi as well as English but writes only in English. She started to draw at the age of five when her mother handed her a paintbrush and told her to draw her heart out. Kaur has said that she sees her life as an exploration of that artistic journey. After completing a degree in rhetoric studies, she published her first collection of poems, 2014’s milk and honey. The internationally acclaimed collection sold over a million copies and graced the New York Times bestseller list for over a year. Her second collection, the sun and her flowers, was published in 2017; throughout these collected works, she explores themes including love, loss, trauma, healing, migration, revolution, and the feminine. Her works have popularized Instapoetry, a new social-media driven genre of short and easily accessible poetry.