The first collection to engage with "Instapoetry," this open access book explores the aesthetics and ideologies of the 21st century's most popular poetic form. When Instagram was created as a photo-sharing app dominated by filtered selfies, few thought that it would have any impact on the literary world. A decade later, the best-seller lists are regularly dominated by poets whose careers started on Instagram, and their success has led to a wider resurgence in poetry reading. Instapoetry, a notably diverse movement, exists in many different languages and cultures, and it is notably hospitable…mehr
The first collection to engage with "Instapoetry," this open access book explores the aesthetics and ideologies of the 21st century's most popular poetic form. When Instagram was created as a photo-sharing app dominated by filtered selfies, few thought that it would have any impact on the literary world. A decade later, the best-seller lists are regularly dominated by poets whose careers started on Instagram, and their success has led to a wider resurgence in poetry reading. Instapoetry, a notably diverse movement, exists in many different languages and cultures, and it is notably hospitable to writers who are young, female, working class, and from recent immigrant or ethnic minority groups. Yet, as a genre, Instapoetry has often been subject to abuse in the literary press: even those writers frequently identified as Instapoets frequently reject the label in their eagerness to be viewed as "real" poets. Reading #Instapoetry interrogates the practices and implications of Instapoetry as an art form. Refusing to simply condemn the simplicity and seeming artlessness of Instapoems, contributors ask how we can develop a literary-critical language that accounts for the hashtagging and graphic design elements that are key to the form. Digital humanities sampling and analysis methods are used to account for the many flows and commonalities within the hashtags that order the Instapoetry universe. The scholars also ask questions regarding the late capitalist ideologies, in particular the casualization of poetic labor, that lie at the heart of the Instapoetry endeavor, and the ways that these may undercut the supposedly woke messages of feminist celebration and self-empowerment that are common to many Instapoems. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence onbloomsburycollections.com.
James Mackay is Associate Professor of Literature and Digital Cultures at European University Cyprus. Previous publications include The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy (2010) and Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary 1900-2010 (2014, with David Stirrup). He is a founder-editor of the journal Transmotion, an open-access journal of Indigenous literary and cultural studies. Recent projects include a co-edited issue of the European Journal of English Studies on Instapoetry as a transnational phenomenon. JuEunhae Knox is Teaching Associate at the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield, UK, examining AI-produced poems against Instapoetry practices, the effects of an over-inundated digital metaverse on new poetic forms, and how marginalised counterpublics resist algorithmic constrictions and platformization. Her PhD thesis at the University of Glasgow, UK, was the first to study Instapoetry and poe(t/m)-tagging in light of the Creator Economy. She led the inaugural global conference #Reading Instapoetry with James Mackay, and her article "United We 'Gram," published by Poetics Today, scrutinizes the hypertextual effects of consumerist Instapoetry trends.
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction JuEunhae Knox (University of Sheffield, UK) and James Mackay (European University, Cyprus) Chapter 1. E-Lit's #1 Hit: Is Instagram Poetry E-literature? Kathi Inman Berens (Portland State University, USA) Chapter 2. #Tagged: Hashing Meaning through Poe(t/m)-tagging JuEunhae Knox (University of Sheffield, UK) Chapter 3. Missed Possibilities from Unobtainable Data: The Case of Instapoetry and a Wish to Go Beyond Rupi Kaur Camilla Holm Soelseth (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway) and Eleonora Natalia Ravizza (University of Catania, Italy) Chapter 4. "Poetry is about people seeing themselves": An Interview with Kirsty Melville James Mackay (European University, Cyprus) and JuEunhae Knox (University of Sheffield, UK) Chapter 5. Instant Confessions Yara Gawrieh Ekmark (independent scholar) Chapter 6. 'Former Contours': Posts, (Post) Pregnancy, and Re/turning to Creative Processes Laura Tansley (University of Glasgow, UK) Chapter 7. "The Floodgates Have Been Opened": Instapoetry and the Recentering of Marginalized Poets Laura Gallon (University of Sussex, UK) Chapter 8. 'Fat, Fly, Brown Poet': Yesika Salgado, Instapoetry, and Politics in the Undergraduate Classroom Maria Carla Sanchez (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) Chapter 9. "Healing is Everyday Work": Instapoetry, Intimate Publics, and the Language of Self-Help Millicent Lovelock (University of Manchester, UK) Chapter 10. Poetry-by-Numbers: Machine-Generating Instapoetry Ryan Prewitt (Saint Louis University, USA) and Max Accardi (independent scholar) Chapter 11. How to Be a Successful #instapoet: Defying Jean Baudrillard's Hyperreal with Marketing Strategies Based on Hollie McNish Melissa Sarikaya (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Chapter 12. Platform Poetics: Instapoetry in the Age of Platformization Zak Bronson and Warren Steele (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Chapter 13. What's the Carbon Footprint of an (Insta)Poem?: Reading #poetsofinstagram in the Anthropocene James Mackay (European University, Cyprus) and Polina Mackay (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) List of Contributors Index
Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction JuEunhae Knox (University of Sheffield, UK) and James Mackay (European University, Cyprus) Chapter 1. E-Lit's #1 Hit: Is Instagram Poetry E-literature? Kathi Inman Berens (Portland State University, USA) Chapter 2. #Tagged: Hashing Meaning through Poe(t/m)-tagging JuEunhae Knox (University of Sheffield, UK) Chapter 3. Missed Possibilities from Unobtainable Data: The Case of Instapoetry and a Wish to Go Beyond Rupi Kaur Camilla Holm Soelseth (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway) and Eleonora Natalia Ravizza (University of Catania, Italy) Chapter 4. "Poetry is about people seeing themselves": An Interview with Kirsty Melville James Mackay (European University, Cyprus) and JuEunhae Knox (University of Sheffield, UK) Chapter 5. Instant Confessions Yara Gawrieh Ekmark (independent scholar) Chapter 6. 'Former Contours': Posts, (Post) Pregnancy, and Re/turning to Creative Processes Laura Tansley (University of Glasgow, UK) Chapter 7. "The Floodgates Have Been Opened": Instapoetry and the Recentering of Marginalized Poets Laura Gallon (University of Sussex, UK) Chapter 8. 'Fat, Fly, Brown Poet': Yesika Salgado, Instapoetry, and Politics in the Undergraduate Classroom Maria Carla Sanchez (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) Chapter 9. "Healing is Everyday Work": Instapoetry, Intimate Publics, and the Language of Self-Help Millicent Lovelock (University of Manchester, UK) Chapter 10. Poetry-by-Numbers: Machine-Generating Instapoetry Ryan Prewitt (Saint Louis University, USA) and Max Accardi (independent scholar) Chapter 11. How to Be a Successful #instapoet: Defying Jean Baudrillard's Hyperreal with Marketing Strategies Based on Hollie McNish Melissa Sarikaya (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Chapter 12. Platform Poetics: Instapoetry in the Age of Platformization Zak Bronson and Warren Steele (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Chapter 13. What's the Carbon Footprint of an (Insta)Poem?: Reading #poetsofinstagram in the Anthropocene James Mackay (European University, Cyprus) and Polina Mackay (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) List of Contributors Index
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