On March 18, famed poet Rupi Kaur took to the stage to perform two of her empowering poems at the 2024 Power Play Summit, a 24-hour event designed to bring together some of the country’s most influential women to connect, inspire, and collaborate.
If you're on Instagram, there’s no doubt you’ll recognize Kaur’s work. Marked by her bite-size, all-lowercase poetic style, Kaur rose to fame in the 2010s when she began sharing snippets of her work on social media. Her poems on self-love, femininity, and trauma quickly became viral hits, prompting Kaur to write, illustrate, and self-publish her first collection of poems, milk and honey, in 2014. The book went on to sell 2.5 million copies worldwide, making Kaur a household name and paving the way for her later works, the sun and her flowers (2017) and home body (2020), which both debuted at #1 on bestseller lists. Nowadays, Kaur still posts her work for her 4.5 million Instagram followers and performs her poetry all around the world.
