tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34055848588912802442024-03-05T04:27:57.512-08:00Body Tattoostattoo ideas | tattoo finder | tattoo pictures | tattoo designs | tattoo art | tattoo fonts | temporary tattoos | tattoo | tattoo shops | tattoos for guys | tattoo parlors | tattoo lettering | free tattoo flash | tattooing | tribal tattoos | free tattoos designs | tattoo stencils | tattoo prices | free tattoos | tattoo artist | tattoo design | free tattoo stencils | tattoos for menadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06250695677088394872noreply@blogger.comBlogger691125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-64694501560642444442012-04-23T02:47:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.466-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Izzy OneiricToday's tattooed poet is Izzy Oneiric, who sends us this amazing shot of her sleeve:I'll let Izzy take it from here:"My sleeve took 11 years to complete. The figure in the center is Dream from the Sandman graphic novel. I first saw it when I was 14, and knew instantly I wanted it tattooed. I got it a few months after I turned 18 by Steve at the Lion's Den in Salem, New Hampshire. Eight years Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-3603225968314545482012-04-22T03:24:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.467-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Bianca StoneToday's poet is Bianca Stone, who I met last year at the Best American Poetry 2011 launch reading. I spoke to her about contributing then and, true to her word, she was the first poet to confirm her participation this year.Bianca sent me this photo:She explains:"At first this was just a tattoo of Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket. The drawings was based on the original drawings from the book by Carlo Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-87586024914135244892012-04-21T10:09:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.467-07:00Cohen - Finished a Fewwww.cohenfloch.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-17062322033184732882012-04-21T04:52:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.467-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Michael Henry LeeBeginning in the second year of the Tattooed Poets Project, we experienced the thrill of having poets from previous years return to share more ink.This year is no exception, and the first of two repeat contributors is Michael Henry Lee.Last year, he contributed "work inspired by his spiritual convictions, with work spanning three decades by three artists in three very distinct parts of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-10166638268607435612012-04-20T02:43:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.467-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Laura GoodeToday's tattooed poet is Laura Goode.I had the distinct pleasure of recommending a shop to Laura back in January when she was planning on getting a new tattoo in Los Angeles. Knowing she was going to be near Pasadena, a lovely city I once called home, I suggested Resurrection Tattoo and she was very happy with the experience. This is what she got: "My newest tattoo, a peacock feather, is Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-86669270133099860442012-04-19T03:34:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.467-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Fred SchmalzToday's tattooed poet, Fred Schmalz, resides in Germany, a first for the Tattooed Poets Project.As you can see, he is also heavily-tattooed and, lucky for us, he sent us a lot of photos, so let's not waste any more time and take a look at his ink.I'll let Fred explain:"...a right arm upper half-sleeve related to a poem of mine ('I am here to tell you where I slept last night') which originally Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-15833312111694275692012-04-18T02:51:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.467-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Amy RaffertyToday's tattooed poet is Amy Rafferty.Amy narrates her history of getting tattooed: "I've never been that sure why I got my tattoos and to be honest I'd probably put it down to poor impulse control.I got my first when I was seventeen. Me and my friend Suzy were wondering around bored one day and we found ourselves looking in the window at Terry's Tattoo Studio. We could see all the big, hardUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-51605262077207561722012-04-17T00:00:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.468-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Iris CushingToday's tattooed poet is Iris Cushing. Iris sent us this photo: Iris explains:"This is a drawing by the poet Elizabeth Bishop, which I found in her Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, edited by Alice Quinn. It illustrates a dream that Bishop had while she was at Yaddo in 1950, about an owl riding on the back of a rabbit. I love that Bishop was a poet Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-54438450744329628482012-04-16T00:07:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.468-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Ira SukrungruangToday's tattooed poet is Ira Sukrungruang. Before checking out his tattoo, here’s what Ira had to say about ink:"I thought if I held off until I was thirty, it meant I really wanted a tattoo. It meant that I’ve been thinking about getting a tattoo since I was fifteen and waited nearly fifteen years to finally have one done. I’m a guy who wants things, and sometimes my wants are fleeting, like a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-55019468240523644442012-04-14T23:31:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.468-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Erica MenaAmong this year's Tattooed Poets' submissions, this is one of my favorite photos:Photograph by Julie ChenThis was submitted by the poet Erica Mena, whose tattoo was inspired by the great Pablo Neruda.Erica gives us the detail behind these wonderful tattoos: "This is my most intimate tattoo, my Neruda tattoo: 'Love is so short, forgetting is so long.' It's a full line (punctuation included) Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-17309149752023292132012-04-14T02:59:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.468-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Shannon PhillipsToday's tattooed poet is Shannon Phillips. She has five tattoos, none of which are in color. All of them are on her back. She sent us a few photos so we could appreciate them:I'll let Shannon tell their stories:"I knew I wanted a tattoo, but the commitment to one idea was freaking me out. However, I took an Art of Mexico class and when I learned the term 'Nepantla' I knew that was it. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-24172394012009306672012-04-12T23:56:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.468-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Chris SitemanToday's chapter of the Tattooed Poet's Project features the work of Chris Siteman.Chris sent in this poem featuring these literature-based tattoos :Chris explains:"The pieces on my chest were my first two tattoos. I got them when I was twenty, and was working as a doorman at The Rathskeller, Boston’s now defunct rock bar better known as The Rat. The pieces were originally inked by Jason Sexton (Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-36629914673597746882012-04-12T00:09:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.468-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Emily HarrisonToday we have another tattooed poet from "across the Pond".Emily Harrison sent us this lovely tattoo from the United Kingdom:Emily explains:"It was the first appointment of the day on my 18th birthday at Sinking The Ink in Swindon and I finally got to get the tattoo. I ignored friends and family warning me not to commit to such a lifelong commitment at such a 'young and impressionable age' and, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-49605673775482674112012-04-11T00:00:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.469-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Sammi SkolmoskiWhenever possible, I try and correspond our posts with corresponding dates. So, when Sammi Skolmoski sent this tattoo in, April 11 seemed appropriate:Why this tattoo today? April 11, 2012 marks five years since the great Kurt Vonnegut passed away and, as Sammi explains:" 'Goodbye, Blue Monday' is the alternate title of Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions. It is my favorite book - one in which Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-91006871958794936232012-04-09T23:57:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.469-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Traci BrimhallToday's tattooed poet is Traci Brimhall, who shares this single word with us:Traci explains:"I got my tattoo last April during the Little Grassy Literary Festival at Carbondale, IL. I was in Carbondale to do a reading from my first book, when I got the email that my second book had been accepted. I wanted to do something to mark the occasion, something both wild and permanent, and there was a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-86943489541117392142012-04-09T00:00:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.469-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Gary McDowellOur next tattooed poet is Gary McDowell. Here's what Gary had to say about his ink:"I remember thinking as a teenager that I’d never get a tattoo. It wasn’t because I didn’t like them. I did. It wasn’t because I was afraid of the pain. I wasn’t. I think it had something to do with the fact that I had no idea what I would ever want permanently etched into my skin. But as I grew older and my Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-78093735488884438812012-04-08T00:23:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.469-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Kayla SargesonOften people winder where I find all of our tattooed poets. Many come to us via word-of-mouth and through social media. This year, I found an anthology of poets "under 25," and figured that would be a good resource. Today's post, along with a few others, originated from that volume.Today's tattooed poet is Kayla Sargeson. She is sharing this whimsical tattoo, which is her ninth:This is Kayla's Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-1270821690361148122012-04-07T00:20:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.469-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Jo LangtonSay what you will about the Tattooed Poets Project, but it has been dominated by Americans these past four years. Unless I'm forgetting someone, we've only had one poet featured from outside the U.S., and that was Claire Askew, whose ink appeared back in 2009 here.Well, this year we are expanding a bit more, including a few more poets that reside outside of the States, and our first such shining Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-11576576682090385242012-04-05T23:25:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.470-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Adam "Bucho" RodenbergerToday's tattooed poet is Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger. He sent in this sweet tattoo that is ideal for a crafter of words:Bucho explains:"It had been 12 years since I'd last gotten a tattoo and, having moved to San Francisco in 2009 to pursue my MFA in Writing, I felt it was time for another mile-marker. I had been writing off and on since 1995, but got much more serious about the craft around 2003. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-41251697778761087062012-04-04T23:50:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.470-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Rob GansonNext up on the Tattooed Poets Project is Rob Ganson, who informs us "I am tattooed over 75% of my body with award winning ink by my friend Ron Stephens of Tattoo Alley in Ashland, Wisconsin." Rob has sent us a plethora of tattoos, a sample of which follows:"The back piece was Ron's interpretation on a [Frank] Frazetta painting called 'The Moonmaid.' "Next up is this portrait of Jim MorrisonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-18918854703094013392012-04-04T00:00:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.470-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Andrea EnglandOur next tattooed poet is Andrea England, who submitted this photo of her tattoo:Andrea explains:"In 2001, I was able to take a trip to Ireland, the place of my mother’s ancestry, a place that she regretted never having visited. When I returned from Ireland I decided to tattoo her maiden initials on my arm in the original Celtic font used in The Book of Kells; CFM stands for Catherine Fallon Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-42761850951810037742012-04-03T16:51:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.470-07:00CITY OF ANGELS.....on CamdenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-77949880447968282132012-04-03T00:00:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.470-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Karrie WaaralaOur next tattooed poet is Karrie Waarala, who chose to share this stunning tattoo: Located on her upper right arm, Karrie explained the origin of this art:“This tattoo is a painting by my favorite artist, Franz Marc, whose career full of bold, colorful animals was cut far too short by his death in World War I. I had known I wanted a Marc tattoo for some time and had been shopping around for the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-86819801329803500982012-04-02T00:00:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.470-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Eric MoragoThis morning's tattooed poet is Eric Morago, who shares these lines of verse from his forearm:I am a BIG Charles Bukowski fan, so I immediately recognized these lines ("what matters most / is how you / walk through the / fire") when I saw the photo. Eric explains:"The tattoo is taken from a the title of a collection of poems by Charles Bukowski. I got [the tattoo] over Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405584858891280244.post-30717418468265034492012-04-01T00:00:00.000-07:002012-04-23T18:43:54.470-07:00The Tattooed Poets Project: Noelle KocotWe are launching this, our fourth year of celebrating tattooed poets for National Poetry Month, with the work of an amazingly talented writer, Noelle Kocot. I had first approached Noelle about participating last year, but it never came to fruition.This year, however, we were able to pull it together.First, here's a glimpse of Noelle's tattoo:As tattoos go, this is fairly simple and straight Unknownnoreply@blogger.com