instapoetry

Out with T.S. Eliot, and In with Cathy Park Hong: Poetry Criticism in the 21st Century

Out with T.S. Eliot, and In with Cathy Park Hong: Poetry Criticism in the 21st Century

The debate about whether Rupi Kaur’s poetry (and by extension, the whole genre dubbed “instapoetry”) is good or bad has apparently been revived. Whether that debate is actually useful in the terms it has set out for itself remains to be seen. Most often, it seems, when the poet in question is a young woman…