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Rupi Kaur



Rupi Kaur is an India-born Canadian poet, performer, illustrator, author, and activist. Her collections have sold over eight million copies and have been translated into over forty-two languages. Rupi’s work touches on love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, and migration.

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Emma Watson Interviews Rupi Kaur for Our Shared Shelf

Emma Watson interviews writer/poet Rupi Kaur for her book club Our Shared Shelf.

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Milk and Honey

A collection of poetry and prose about survival, about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

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The Sun and Her Flowers

The book is divided into five sections reflecting the life cycle of a flower, with chapters titled: Wilting, Falling, Rooting, Rising, and Blooming. It focuses on themes of love and loss, trauma and abuse, healing, femininity and the body.

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I’m Taking My Body Back | Rupi Kaur | TEDxKC

Using a mix of poetry and narrative, Rupi Kaur weaves together a powerful and cathartic story—which in spite of great trauma, ends where it begins—by restoring the feeling of home within your body.

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How Instagram Saved Poetry

Social media is turning an art form into an industry. Rupi Kaur is a case study in how dramatically the world of poetry has changed. The 25-year-old Canadian poet outsold Homer two years ago: Her first collection, Milk & Honey, has been translated into 40 languages and has sold 3.

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Rupi Kaur Reads Timeless from Her Poetry Collection The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur details how she went from self-published student poet to the top of the New York Times best-seller list with fans like Sam Smith tattooing her artwork, plus she shares a poem from her second collection, The Sun and Her Flowers.

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Home Body

Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in Home Body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self.

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Why Do We Love To Hate Insta-Poet Rupi Kaur?

In a world filled with bad poets, we explore why Kaur especially gets memed and hated on over and over again.

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Poet Rupi Kaur Reaches New Audiences in a New Way

Rupi Kaur, one of Instagram’s favorite poets, writes about love, heartbreak and womanhood. She speaks to Jeffrey Brown about her rise to fame and her message for young women.

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Meet Rupi Kaur, Queen of the ‘Instapoets’

With almost 2 million Instagram followers, Kaur has made her straightforward poetry about love, heartbreak and womanhood a global sensation

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