Not only she’s a published author but she’s also a full time art student at IVS, Karachi. It’s no exaggeration to call her a multi-hyphenate artist. In grade 6, she entered the world of internet by her blog Noor’s Place. Unnahar is a 23 year old Karachi born poet & blogger. Noor Unnahar – Millennials redefining poetryįirst on our recommendation list is Noor Unnahar. So, the poetic landscape now includes, spontaneous instagram posts and captions, quick 141 character limit tweets and the widely loved spoken word. It’s important to understand that trends of poetry have drastically changed in the last two decades. Then came the millennial generation that fought against the rules and conventions that restricted poetry. However, the trends of poetry since times immemorial have been difficult to understand by laymen.

In order to feel and savour every emotion it conveys, it should be raw and unfiltered. Thus, we have curated a list of 21st century’s best poets from all across the globe. This week at Daastan, we bring to you the best of millennial poets.

Whether it’s art, literature, politics or culture leave it to a millennial to give things a new meaning. In addition, he was invited to speak at the prestigious TEDx stage at Christ University to present his talk Follow Your Confusion.Īmidst the uncertainties of this amazing, terrible, magical, horrible, yet beautiful, life, as he puts it, Akif Kichloo writes of love, grief, healing and self care, posting a couple of poems weekly to his various social media pages with a huge following of avid readers and poetry lovers from all over the world.Millennials have their own way of doing everything. His poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Glass, Fly Paper Magazine, Obra / Artifact, Sheraza, Nightingale & Sparrow, Homology Lit, Kissing Dynamite, Verse of Silence, and more. A graduate of JU, Akif holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery.Īkif Kichloo started writing at an early age, having contributed for publications like The Huffington Post and The Wire. Akif Kichloo is a Poet, Doctor of Medicine by profession, and Author of three full length poetry collections: Falling Through Love (Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 2019), Poems That Lose (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2017) & The Feeling May Remain (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2016).

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