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Unknown on Tuesday, February 1, 2011

It's February 1, which means we are only two months away from the start of a new edition of The Tattooed Poets Project, and I have begun assembling the first posts for this annual extravaganza.What better way to acknowledge [...]
More about → Rilke On the Flesh
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Unknown on Thursday, August 12, 2010

This is an orphan post, what I refer to as a photo with no real story attached to it, as the individual who let me take the photo, never e-mailed me with any further details.I shot the picture at the end of the Brooklyn [...]
More about → Jack Kerouac Back
Posted by
Unknown on Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I recently had the intense displeasure of discovering that my camera had broken. For someone whose spare time is spent taking pictures of other people's tattoos, this was a harrowing experience, especially since my BlackBerry's [...]
More about → Sarah Channels Emma Goldman
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Unknown on Wednesday, June 16, 2010

At 31st Street and 7th Avenue, I stopped Kat to ask about her ink.She was happy to see me and had been wondering, having previously read Tattoosday and knowing she worked in the same area as I did, if our paths would ever [...]
More about → Kat's Mucha Tattoo, With a Twist of Lemony Snicket
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Unknown on Sunday, April 25, 2010

Today's tattooed poet found us by way of Adam Deutsch. Jeff Simpson offers up this cool arm tattoo:Jeff, a tattooed poet from Oklahoma tells us:I started reading Horace in grad school and soon grew to be a fan of the odes. [...]
More about → The Tattooed Poets Project: Jeff Simpson
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Unknown on Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Today's tattooed poet is Lea Banks.Lea sent along several photos of her work, so let's not waste any time checking out her ink.Descriptions from Lea follow each photo."Vita Nuova" was the first tattoo celebrating my divorce, [...]
More about → The Tattooed Poets Project: Lea Banks
Posted by
Unknown on Wednesday, July 22, 2009

I met Colleen on Penn Plaza and her ankle tattoo jumped out at me from a distance. It was so unusual, I just had to stop and ask her about it.Behold: Quadrapus!If this four-limbed octopus-like creature looks fanciful, it's [...]
More about → Behold, Quadrapus!