Instagram Poets

Conversation with
Pavana Reddy

The Summer 2019 issue features a tribute to Instagram Poets. Much has been written about Instagram poetry over the last several years, and we thought it was time to investigate for ourselves. We received both submissions and recommendations and read through thousands of Instagram accounts, choosing the best 18 poems we could find. Some of them are Insta-famous, with hundreds of thousands of followers on the platform, while others have as few as 20. As with all things, we’re interested in the quality of the poems and not the stature of the poets. The styles span the range, too, from visual poems to epigrams to more traditional poetry that just happens to fit well with the media.  Learn more about the nexus of poetry and Instagram as Timothy Green talks to emerging star Pavana Reddy.

Meanwhile, the open section features two dozen eclectic poems, including the return of previously unpublished poet Marvin Artis, with a second round of his hidden gems.

 

	Instagram Poets
	Benjamin Aleshire	Good Manners
	Christopher Cioc	He Don’t Love Me
	Luigi Coppola	Find
	Lauren Eden	I’m Not Confused
	Vini Emery	All of the Things
	Raquel Franco	You Are More Than Paper Thin
	Jade Homa	I Need to Stop Looking
	Mack Jarvis	Imagine a Violin Bow
	Kat Lehmann	Taxonomy
	David Lukas	Cider
	Christopher McCurry	Simple Prayer
	LQ McDonald III	No Gold Pursues the Dawn
	Gabrielle Nelson	I Should Change the Light
	Eric Peterson	Thus
	Pavana Reddy	There Is No Poetry in Loving Someone
	Eva Simmons	One Smile
	Brian Sonia-Wallace	My Gift Is the Sculpture
	Poetry
	Amy Alvarez	How to Date a White Boy
	Chris Anderson	Misreading Darwin
	Marvin Artis	Poetry
		Two Lovers Standing on the East River …
		New Negroes
	Bruce Bennett	Comforts
	Catherine Bresner	Canvasser
	Susan Browne	Strange Ode
	George David Clark	Sun on Your Shoulders
	Matt Farrell	Sky Blue
	Alan C. Fox	Full Disclosure
	Kate Gale	Sit on My Lap, I’ll Show You Happily Ever After
	Stephanie A. Hart	The Purse
	Stephen Kampa	To Keep the Day
	David Kirby	Little Movies
	Lania Knight	Susurration
	Morgan Kovacs	An Abecedarian for the Unmentionable
	Craig Kurtz	Life Before the Internet
	Derek Otsuji	The Whale Watchers
	Catherine Pond	Star Signs
	Carol Potter	In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket
	Aarti Rao	Dear Payaswini
	Pavana Reddy	Tirupati
	Craig van Rooyen	Siege Machinery
	Conversation
	Pavana Reddy (web)
	Cover Art
	Edu Lauton (web)