InstaPoetics

InstaPoetics is a poetry project founded by poet/writer Aja Monet. It uses Instagram as its platform where 15 second poetry videos are posted to make poetry immediate and accessible to everyone. Hashtag your poetry videos with #InstaPoetics for a possible feature on the Instagram page @InstaPoetics and Blog

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"A letter for Trayvon & Hamza" by @mayalhassen #instapoetics #poetry #aletter #fortrayvonandhamza

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"Sinning" by @1krazybxtch #InstaPoetics #Poetry #Sinning

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#InstaPoetics shout out from @vicmensa #innanetape #poetry

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"America's Romantic Nightmare" by @gypsybruja #InstaPoetics #Poetry #TraeHarris

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"Nawlins For the First Time" by @lyricspoetic #instapoetics #poetry #lyric

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"Thunder" by @ajamonet shot by @thoshographer #instapoetics #poetry #thunder #ajamonet

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Still I Rise by Maya Angelou read by @halima_ab #InstaPoetics #Poetry #MayaAngelou #StillIRise

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Deadliest Dance Craze by @mobrowne #InstaPoetics #poetry #mahoganybrowne

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Untitled poem from The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks as read by @vishuddha #InstaPoetics #Poetry #Rumi

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T.S. Eliot

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"The Kid" by Ai read by @safiamafia #instapoetics #Ai #poetry #safia

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"The Kid" by Ai read by @safiamafia #instapoetics #Ai #poetry #safia

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Poetry is not only dream and vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before

Audre Lorde

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A short excerpt from "Fall" by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Read by Alex Ustach. @bozan #InstaPoetics #Poetry #jimmysantiagobaca

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"The City" an #InstaPoetics video by @Tonyasingram

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REPOST from @ajamonet reading "Jim Crow Car" by Langston Hughes #InstaPoetics

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I’m starting an Instagram series of 15second poetry! It’s called “InstaPoetics” Sometimes it will be my poetry and other times it will be of other poets whom I adore. Enjoy this first one called “Jim Crow Car” by Langston Hughes. He has some of my favorite short poems. I am reading this poem from my first edition copy of his book of poems entitled “The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times” by Langston Hughes c.1967