Poetry is finding new prominence in today's mainstream collective imagination, thanks to the rise of writers including Amanda Gorman and Rupi Kaur.
Meanwhile, the Lincoln Center, which houses prestigious artistic institutions like The Juilliard School and the New York Philharmonic, named its very first poet-in-residence this year, Mahogany L. Browne.
It is the work of these types of fellowships and organizations, Jess said, that has led to the resurgent moment we're seeing now. Rupi Kaur -- whose second book of poetry"The Sun and Her Flowers" was published in 2017, the year the NEA collected its most recent data -- was undoubtedly a part of many young people's internal poetry repositories. With a career that began in the early 2010s almost through word of mouth, as her signature short poems and drawings were rapidly shared on Tumblr and other social media websites, Kaur now boasts 4.4 million followers on Instagram and has three books to her name.
, which posts multiple poems daily from a wide-ranging span of writers, to living poets using social media as a way to spread their work , social media has changed the way poems reach people.
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