“I needed to pull readers in and every element mattered.” Poet Rupi Kaur speaks about her first book, Milk and Honey (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2015), and why she turned to Instagram to share her work with readers. Her second book, The Sun and Her Flowers, also published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, was released in 2017. Kaur is featured in “Instapoets Prove Powerful in Print” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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