Six poets every Millennial should read to get them through the day.

Millenials may think of poetry as unrelatable, but they obviously haven't read these poets.

When poetry is taught in schools often the image of an old white man sitting in a chair with a pipe comes to mind. While this poetry is essential laying the groundwork for today, it is unrelatable for the majority of readers. Fortunately, the arts have a habit of reinventing themselves and poetry is no exception. The past three years have seen the national emergence of Instapoetry; poems posted on Instagram often in artsy style or with small accompanying graphics. These poets write for Millennials in a stripped-down form that effortlessly conveys the reality of the modern world and gives them an outlet for the hardship that is not often understood by previous generations.

1. Rupi Kaur

Kaur, a Canadian national, is the known poet on this list. She first received widespread attention in the United States when, as part of a photo project for a university class, Kaur posted a photo of herself lying in bed with menstrual blood stains on her sweatpants and her sheets on Instagram, which was initially removed by the social media platform. The picture on Facebook went viral and was shared by thousands; later, Instagram apologized, saying it had deleted it by mistake.

In 2014 Kaur first published her book "Milk and Honey." The book is broken up into four sections titled "the hurting," "the loving," "the breaking" and "the healing." She personalized created every accompanying illustration for the book. The book, which she promoted on Instagram with daily posts, quickly became one of the best selling books of poetry in recent memory.

The book made onto the top-seller list for Canadian literature on Amazon. It also landed in the number two spot on Amazon's bestseller list for poetry. The collection made it to the New York Times bestseller list and remained on it for 52 consecutive weeks. As of April 2017, it has sold over a million copies. In October 2017, she released a follow up titled "the sun and her flowers" which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times paperback fiction best-seller list.

Kaur has a following of over 1.7 million on Instagram, including pop star Ariana Grande.

Recommended poem: "you should have known i was a fire"

2. Sabrina Benaim

Sabrina Benaim is a writer, performance and teaching artist, whose home base is Toronto. Benaim is known for her slam poetry was a member of the Canadian championship-winning 2014 Toronto Poetry Slam team, and in 2015, she represented Toronto at the Women Of The World Poetry Slam. Her best-known poem "Explaining My Depression to my Mother" shows depression, anxiety and other mental disorders in the routine of everyday life, not just in moments of extreme hopelessness or despair.

Recommended poem: "Explaining My Depression to my Mother"

3. Atticus

Another titan of the Instapoetry world, Atticus is a mysterious poet from Canadia., who at this point has kept his identity under wraps. With more than 400,000 Instagram followers--including celebrities such as actress Emma Roberts, Kunal Nayyar, Shay Mitchell and supermodel Karlie Kloss, Atticus's devout following is impressive. His work inspires many of his followers to get tattoos of his poems, and hundreds showed up to his first reading in Los Angeles in early July 2017.

Recommended poem: Either " Rain in Rome" or " Love Her Wild."

4. Najwa Zebian

The 27-year-old Lebanese poet has amassed more than 700,000 social-media followers, most of them on Instagram. In North America as part of the #MeToo movement, speaking at political rallies, conferences and giving a TEDx Talk. Her comments have been picked up by The New York Times, and she has been featured by the likes of CBS and BBC News. Her celebrity following includes: American singer LeAnn Rimes, French director and actor Mathieu Kassovitz (who plays love interest Nino in the 2001 film Amelie), Lisa Rinna a former American actress turned reality star on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, actress Danielle Brooks, singer Jordin Sparks and Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank. In Zebian's own words, " “I have this… responsibility to help every person out there who are struggling,” she says. “Because I know what it felt like to be in that place.”

Recommended poem: "My Heart is telling me tonight"

5. r.h. Sin

r.h. Sin (real name Reuben Holme) is New York-based poet with a fan base of over 500,000 strong on Instagram. Holmes is a workaholic that aims to write 7,222 words per day. Often, if a topic is trending, he turns it into an epigram. r.h. Sin's poetry can often be found adorning the shirts of his immense fan base.

Recommended work: "the rules."

6. Amanda Lovelace

Amanda Lovelace is more reclusive than fellow poet Rupi Kaur but is still one of the best selling poets in America. The princess saves herself in this one is her debut poetry collection and the first book in the women are some kind of magic series. The second book in the series, the witch doesn't burn in this one, will be published in 2018.

Recommended poem: Sugar, Spice, and Fire

Honorable Mentions

Courtney Peppernell -

Pappernell is an LGBTQ+ author and poet based in Sydney, Australia.

Her first book, "Pillow Thoughts," was released in 2016 and with a follow up the released in 2017 complete with an endorsement by The Chainsmokers who called it “one of the most enjoyable books we have read in a long time!”

Lang Leav:

The grandmother of Instapoets if you will.

Lang Leav self-published a small debut poetry collection, Love and Misadventure, online in 2013. Within two years she was touring the Philippines with her book signings averaging 500 people.

Tyler Knott Gregson-

He was the poet typewriter poetry cool again. Known for his typewriter poetry sand handwritten haiku series on Instagram, Gregson is one of the best selling modern poets in America with an Instagram following of over 338,000.