Top 60 Poetry Influencers in 2026

1. Rupi Kaur

Bio poet & performer *****@rupikaur.com Instagram Handle @rupikaur_ Instagram Followers 4.2M Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Mega Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact Request upto top 1,000 Poetry Instagram Influencers with email contacts in a spreadsheet or csv file. Email us at [email protected] Copy emailEmail us

2. Amanda Gorman

Bio Donate now to support UNICEF’s essential aid to children worldwide ⬇️ *****@urbanwordnyc.org Instagram Handle @amandascgorman Instagram Followers 3.6M Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Mega Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

3. R. M. Drake

Bio New York Times Best Selling AuthorDetoxify Book: link below Instagram Handle @rmdrk Instagram Followers 2.7M Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Mega Gender Male Get Email Contact

4. Morgan Harpernichols

Bio Artist + PhD student (UGA) aspiring to make short films. Inspired by doodling in notebooks, comics, video games + the many ways stories can be told 💛 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @morganharpernichols Instagram Followers 1.9M Type Mega Gender Female Enagagement Rate swiss-miss.com + Follow Get Email Contact

5. Atticus

Bio Anonymous poet of 3 x NYT Best Sellers. Poetry, storytelling & creative collaborations. Sending love from the shadows xx Join my newsletter ↓ *****@atticuspoetry.com Instagram Handle @atticuspoetry Instagram Followers 1.6M Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Mega Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

6. Arch Hades

Bio 'Return | Ritorno' at Scoletta Battioro e Tiraoro in VENICE 07.05.2026 - 01.11.2026 *****@archhades.com Instagram Handle @archhades Instagram Followers 870.5K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

7. Nikita Gill

Bio Poet. Playwright. Artist. @literacy_trust poetry ambassador. Represented by Niki Chang @davidhighambooks. ORDER HEKATE HERE AND PREORDER STYX HERE: Instagram Handle @nikita_gill Instagram Followers 839.9K Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

8. Cleo Wade

Bio My new book is called In a World of Sunrises: 365 days of Heart, Soul, and Hope is out now 💛☀️📒 *****@cleowade.com Instagram Handle @cleowade Instagram Followers 747.9K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

9. Andrea Gibson

Bio Poet Laureate of HeavenFilm: Come See Me in the Good LightBooks: You Better Be Lightning +Writings on Substack ↓ *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @andreagibson Instagram Followers 603.1K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Macro Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

10. Lang Leav

Bio International Bestselling Author of I KNOW THE ANTS out July #IKnowtheAnts 🐜 Link to pre-order: *****@writershouse.com Instagram Handle @langleav Instagram Followers 469.1K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

11. Ocean Vuong

Bio *****@oceanvuong.com Instagram Handle @ocean_vuong Instagram Followers 458.6K Follower Growth (2mo) +3% Type Macro Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

12. Margaret Atwood

Bio Author *****@caa.com Instagram Handle @therealmargaretatwood Instagram Followers 372.1K Follower Growth (2mo) +2% Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

13. Christopher Poindexter

Bio Searching for a voice. Founder @jackwildpublishing Personal @trumpetthatsangelizabeth Flower farming @wildroot_flowerco *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @christopherpoindexter Instagram Followers 322.3K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

14. Tyler Knott Gregson

Bio Autistic. Poet. Photographer. Buddhist. Deeply unserious.YNWA.Hoobie to @ladygregson💌 Sign Up for my Signal Fire ↓ *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @tylerknott Instagram Followers 300.3K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

15. Rudy Francisco

Bio #Belizean 🇧🇿 | #Garifuna | 📍San Diego | Author of “helium” & “I’ll fly away” |@cuse_nurho | purchase books in the bio | Zoey’s dad 🍉 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @rudyfrancisco Instagram Followers 253.1K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

16. Yrsa Daley-Ward

Bio Author, among other tendencies. *****@me.com Instagram Handle @yrsadaleyward Instagram Followers 240.4K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

17. Mansi Jikadara

Bio all work is protected by copyright ©️✨pls don’t copy/recreate/modify🚫🌻email for business enquiries 💌💡journaling videos 📹📚 ↓ *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @thetypewriterdaily Instagram Followers 183.4K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

18. Hanif Abdurraqib

Bio Writer. Ohio Against The World. PhD in Sad Songs. But doing fine, really. I don’t check DMs, so I won’t see it. *****@abdurraqib.com instead. Instagram Handle @nifmuhammad Instagram Followers 174.7K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Macro Gender Male Enagagement Rate news.wosu.org/podcast/small-.. + Follow Get Email Contact

19. Warsan Shire

Bio poet. enquiring minds: *****@rockingchairbooks.com Instagram Handle @warsanshiree Instagram Followers 151.4K Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

20. Courtney Peppernell

Bio There is always hope in tomorrow ✨- The Last Poem: A Novel, Out Now- Thinking of You, 6/AugAll my books below ⤵️ *****@pepperbooks.org Instagram Handle @courtneypeppernell Instagram Followers 147.9K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

21. Brian Bilston

Bio I write poems. *****@jounwin.co.uk Instagram Handle @brian_bilston Instagram Followers 143.4K Follower Growth (2mo) +2% Type Macro Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

22. Michael Faudet

Bio I am a New Zealand author represented by Writers House, New York. My latest book, Playing with Matches, is available from bookstores worldwide. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @michaelfaudet Instagram Followers 138.6K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

23. Alison A. Malee

Bio poet. author. artist. perpetual wanderer. nyc. @booksteapoetry & @aliwriteshome ∘ books and events⇣ *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @alison.malee Instagram Followers 117.1K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

24. Adam Schmalholz

Bio 2x Emmy Nominated Poet | Multi-Platinum Songwriter I Bestselling Author | Keynote Speaker | Book, Journal, Album, Events & Booking Inquiries ⬇️ *****@in-q.com Instagram Handle @inqlife Instagram Followers 113.7K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

25. Amanda Lovelace

Bio bestselling poetess & witchy author | 🏳️‍🌈 | wife of @itsparkerlee | THE WITCH DOESN’T DROWN IN THIS ONE out now 🌊 Instagram Handle @ladybookmad Instagram Followers 113.2K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

26. Trista Mateer

Bio ★ poet, artist, idk i just like making things ★Misc. Americana OUT NOW!! *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @tristamateer Instagram Followers 91.5K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

27. Ada Limón

Bio Official IG of Writer, Poet, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States #adalimon *****@fieldofficewriters.com Instagram Handle @adalimonwriter Instagram Followers 72.2K Follower Growth (2mo) +6% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

28. Emily Dickinson Museum

Bio Sparking the imagination from the place she called home. *****@emilydickinsonmuseum.org Instagram Handle @emilydickinson.museum Instagram Followers 70.3K Follower Growth (2mo) +3% Type Micro Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

29. Upile Chisala

Bio Mother. Storyteller. Researcher.Email: *****@gmail.com‘a fire like you’, 'soft magic' & 'Nectar' on Amazon.#Upile #softmagic Instagram Handle @beingupile Instagram Followers 63.5K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

30. Sylvia Plath

Bio All things Sylvia & then some 📚👑💕♡ Feel free to repost w/ credit. ♡ Tag me in your Plath posts!♡ Global social issues are available in highlights. *****@outlook.com Instagram Handle @sylviaplathpoetry Instagram Followers 60.9K Follower Growth (2mo) +2% Type Micro Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

31. Sabrina Benaim

Bio dig 🖖🏼 📚 Depression & Other Magic Tricks // I Love You, Call Me Back // Chaotic Good Instagram Handle @badass_sab Instagram Followers 60.5K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

32. Iain S. Thomas

Bio Thank you for reading. You can Sign Up for my newsletter in the link. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @realiainsthomas Instagram Followers 52.8K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

33. Danez Smith

Bio Poet. Performer. Writer of other things. Teacher. Black Person. Your favorite ex. (They/Them/That Bitch) Instagram Handle @danez_smif Instagram Followers 49.7K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

34. Safia Elhillo

Bio sudania ١٠٠/١٠٠. @blueflowerarts for inquiries, @randomhouse for books. i don’t read DMs☀️ @yazolcollective *****@safia-mafia.com Instagram Handle @safiamafia Instagram Followers 42.5K Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

35. Madisen Kuhn Lamore

Bio Eighteen Years, Please Don’t Go Before I Get Better, Almost Home, and Bad At Existing@keepsakepoems *****@madisen.co Instagram Handle @madisenkuhn Instagram Followers 32.2K Follower Growth (2mo) -3% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

36. Jessica Katoff

Bio atlanta based poet, novelist, and taco connoisseur. all works copyright © jessica katoff, unless otherwise stated. #jessicakatoff Instagram Handle @jessicakatoff Instagram Followers 25.4K Follower Growth (2mo) -3% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

37. Franny Choi

Bio Writer. Founder of @brewandforge. THE WORLD KEEPS ENDING, AND THE WORLD GOES ON (@eccobooks). Contact @leslieleship / @pandeliterary Instagram Handle @fancyrhino Instagram Followers 20.1K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

38. Tracy K. Smith

Bio Poet, Memoirist, Librettist, Translator, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory at Harvard University Instagram Handle @tracyksmithpoet Instagram Followers 11.7K Follower Growth (2mo) +6% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

39. Hieu Minh Nguyen

Bio Poet, and sometimes Pam 🦭 *****@hieuminhnguyen.com Instagram Handle @hieuminhbeing Instagram Followers 11K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

40. Tiana Clark

Bio Poet. Professor. Essayist.Author of Scorched Earth, my latest poetry collection ✨💕🙌🏽. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @tianaclarkypants Instagram Followers 9K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

41. Rachel McKibbens

Bio (Camacho) Santa Ana chola. Pink Door. Accomplice. Podcast: We Were Three. “Peace is the white man’s word.” - Kwame Ture #mckibbenswritingprompt Instagram Handle @vulturekiss Instagram Followers 8.8K Follower Growth (2mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

42. Dr. Afra

Bio Emirati | Educator| Poet PhD in Creative Industries | Author ‎شاعرة إماراتية | دكتوراه في الصناعات الابداعية Instagram Handle @afraatiq Instagram Followers 6.2K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

43. Tapiwa Mugabe

Bio Poet. Philosopher. Theologian of the unseenI write toward what’s sacred, invisible & real.Here for memory, beauty, & the future we dream into being. *****@hotmail.co.uk Instagram Handle @tapiwamugabe Instagram Followers 5.8K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

44. Danabelle Gutierrez

Bio Predominantly @dearestcairo's mother. 🧿💖✨️Also, a writer, author, actress, and photographer, on occasion.📚 Links to my books on my bio. 💖 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @danabellegutierrez Instagram Followers 3.7K Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

45. Alysia Knowles

Bio Founder: @medina.creativesPoet✒️ • Creator 🎬 • Producer🎥🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @alysiaknowles Instagram Followers 3.1K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

46. Derek Alton Walcott

Bio Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OCC ORTT (Trinity Cross), Nobel Prize, TS Eliot Prize,Queen’s Medal for PoetryPoet,Playwright,Painter,1930-2017 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @derekwalcottofficial Instagram Followers 2.4K Follower Growth (2mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

47. Jacquie Prebich

Bio Writer. Dancer. Poet. Lover of art and film🖤 Host of #poeticsighs🌜Moonchild🌛Los Angeles 🌊🌴 Instagram Handle @jwprebich Instagram Followers 2.2K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

48. Megha Sood

Bio Award-winning Poet, Author, Editor @flowersongpress @theartistsforum Partner @cesta_stanford Fellowship @mvicw @nlapw @wnbadc @vonavoices @jerseyarts *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @meghasworld16 Instagram Followers 1.5K Follower Growth (2mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate meghasworldsite.wordpress.com + Follow Get Email Contact

49. Beau Taplin

Bio 2500yo Pythagorean Numerology applied to modern Language and Physics Constants proves an Intentionally Designed cosmos. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @beautaplin Instagram Followers 552.7K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

50. Jacqueline Whitney

Bio My books and more. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @jacquelinewhitney_ Instagram Followers 313.9K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

51. Amanda Torroni

Bio A head full of stars & a handful of question marks.♌ Writer. Photographer. Stargazer. Time Traveler.💌 Poet w/ @andrewsmcmeel📍 Charleston, SC *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @amandatorroni Instagram Followers 41.1K Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

52. Blythe Baird

Bio 📌 Minneapolis ❤️‍🔥📖✨ 2x @buttonpoetry author, outreach manager at @loftliterarycenter, McKnight Fellow, & Leo 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 #FREEPALESTINE🇵🇸🍉 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @blythebaird Instagram Followers 33.2K Follower Growth (2mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

53. Nicole Rose

Bio just a poet putting her thoughts to ink♡author of utopia, tea, and lemonade collabs: *****@gmail.commy books↓🎀💌♡ Instagram Handle @nicole.roses Instagram Followers 33K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Micro Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

54. Billy Collins

Bio This is the official Instagram of poet Billy Collins. Accept no substitutes. Instagram Handle @the_real_billy_collins Instagram Followers 12K Follower Growth (2mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Male Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

55. K.Y. Robinson

Bio Author. Family caregiver. Bipolar. In my survival mode & burnout era. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @iamkyrobinson Instagram Followers 9.1K Follower Growth (2mo) -2% Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate Get Email Contact

56. Layla

Bio @uarizona ‘26Creative Writing and Film & TelevisionUntraditionally Slytherin moon girl, word witch, and tea lover. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @nin_chronicles Instagram Followers 1.2K Type Nano Gender Female Enagagement Rate ninchronicles.com + Follow Get Email Contact