Biography
Canadian poet, illustrator, and author Rupi Kaur was born in India in 1992 and moved to Canada four years later. She lives in Brampton, Ontario.
She became popular on Instagram and Tumblr through sharing her short visual poetry. As a 21-year-old university student Kaur wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first poetry collection, milk and honey (2014). Next came its artistic sibling, the sun and her flowers (2017).
These collections have sold over 8 million copies and have been translated into over 42 languages. Her most recent book, home body (2020), debuted at #1 on bestsellers lists across the world. Her work touches on love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, and migration.
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Videos
Poet Rupi Kaur reaches new audiences in a new way
Rupi Kaur, one of Instagram’s favourite poets, writes about love, heartbreak and womanhood. She speaks to Jeffrey Brown about her rise to fame and her message for young women.
SOURCE: PBS Newshour (2018), posted on YouTube, [8:08 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/3QEgOmgQVG4
Emma Watson Interviews Rupi Kaur for Our Shared Shelf
Emma Watson interviews writer/poet Rupi Kaur for her book club Our Shared Shelf.
SOURCE: Our Shared Shelf Group (2018), posted on YouTube, [47:40 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/hL2u93brqiA
Rupi Kaur | reading from Milk and Honey
About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
SOURCE: Simon & Schuster (2017), posted on YouTube, [0:39 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/ts2v0LJHHyE