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Angel tattoo designs are gaining popularity

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Angel tattoos are probably the most common designs for women worldwide. Angel tattoos can be versatile and may be used to create unique designs in a lot of different ways. Angels are thought to be one of the most beautiful heavenly creatures and represent different ideas to different individuals. Professional tattoo studios typically have a number of angel tattoos to pick from and each might possibly be altered into whatever design you'd like. Angels have represented beauty, purity, and spirituality in several different cultures throughout history. The character of a angel has often been employed to symbolize someone's transformation to a higher plane of existence, either physically, mentally, or spiritually. Most angel tattoos have a great amount of detail so the attractive nature associated with the design and style and the intricate aspects of a design can match the loveliness associated with the angels which have been depicted in literature and art. Angel tattoos are easily...
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Wrapping Up National Poetry Month with Josh Medsker (The Tattooed Poets Project)

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Our last tattooed poet for National Poetry Month, 2019, is Josh Medsker , who sent along this photo: Josh recounted how this tattoo came to be: "This tattoo was done at Supernova Tattoo in Astoria, Queens, New York. It’s the logo for Social Distortion , one of my and my wife’s favorite bands. We went to see them at Stubb's in Austin as our first date (the date on the top banner). I got this tattoo for our 5th wedding anniversary in 2009. Leigh got a shamrock with my initials." Josh also shared this poem: “Drag” I. The Sunday after Starbucks girl’s party my head is pounding and my shame complete. It didn’t work out… let’s just say whiskey and vomiting was involved and never speak of it again. I squint and groan my way down Nueces to the drag, to Barnes and Noble. While browsing Poe Chris, the assistant manager, tells me I got the job-- Starts tomorrow. I spend five dollars on a celebratory Mocha Chip Frappucino and catch the bus back to Cameron Road through scary-ass Eas...
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Daniela Olszewska and Emily's Hatbox (The Tattooed Poets Project)

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Our next tattooed poet is Daniela Olszewska , who sent the following photo of one of her tattoos: Daniela related the story behind getting this, her first tattoo: The first tattoo I ever got was a hatbox with the words 'As Syllable from Sound--' written on a ribbon wrapped around the box. This tattoo happened in or near Amherst, Massachusetts about ten years ago. I don’t remember the name of the shop or the woman who gave me the tattoo, but she said something afterwards about that being her first week on the job. The words are the last line of my favorite poem by my favorite poet (strikethrough text) writer, Emily Dickinson . My school had given me a small travel grant to fly from Alabama to spend a couple of days in Amherst visiting the Dickinson museum and the libraries housing archives related to her life and work. I remember that I saw Emily Dickinson’s hatbox in the museum, but I was not allowed to take a photo of it unless I applied for official permission from someone. ...
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Adam Tedesco's Skulls (The Tattooed Poets Project)

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Our next tattooed poet is Adam Tedesco , who shared these, "two of the many tattoos of skulls" that he has: Adam elaborates: The top image, on my left calf, is by Chad Koeplinger ( @chadkoeplingertattoo ). He tattooed me while doing a guest spot at Smith Street ( @smithstreettattooparlour ) in Brooklyn about five years ago. I was waiting outside the shop when they opened and still had to wait about 6 hours for him to get to me. I guess getting this tattoo was really important to me at the time, even though I had no image or design picked out. I had been a fan of Chad's work for a few years at that point and felt comfortable with him tattooing whatever he thought would look best in the spot I had picked out. When he asked what I wanted I just said 'I dunno, man. Something mystical?', to which he offered 'How about a skull with crystals and an eyeball.' 'Yup, that sounds mystical as fuck,' I replied. Chad's a monster, in a good way. I'm a ...
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Michael McInnis on the Tattooed Poets Project

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Today's tattooed poet, on this last Saturday in April, is Michael McInnis. Michael sent the following picture: Michael tells us: "I spent 6 years in the Navy, but never got a tattoo until after I got out. For the necklace, I was inspired by the Mel Gibson/Anthony Hopkins version of Mutiny on the Bounty , and because a shipmate had been killed by a great white while we were in Diego Garcia (see the prose poem below). What better way to honor that by wearing shark's teeth as a talisman and spirit animal. It was done by Bryn Taylor ( @taylormadetattoo ) in the back room of my old bookstore when tattooing was still illegal in Massachusetts. Bryn eventually moved to California, worked for Lyle Tuttle , and then opened his own shop in the Bay Area, Taylor Made Tattoo ." Travelogue of Diego Garcia 1 The Indian Ocean off Diego Garcia swallowed a shipmate. The coral glowed pink and yellow and came rushing up at him as he thrashed to reach the surface. So, this is it then....
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Sarah Nichols, the Peacock and the Cobra (The Tattooed Poets Project)

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Today's tattooed poet is Sarah Nichols, who shared this cobra-peacock mashup: Sarah tells us: "This is my first tattoo. I had it done in February, 2017, right before my 43 rd birthday; I had wanted one for a long time, but it always seemed like the time or the money wasn’t right. It was done at Witchhouse Tattoo ( @witchhousetattoo ) in Hartford, Connecticut, by Courtney ( @czar_baebatron ) , the shop’s owner. The tattoo is a cobra with a peacock’s head, and it is after the work of artist James Prosek ( @jamesprosek ), specifically a drawing entitled The Peacock and The Cobra . For me, both animals are elegant and fierce; as a hybrid creature, it is beautiful and strange, and that comes across in the tattoo." Sarah also shared the following poem, which is from her chapbook of Sylvia Plath / C.D. Wright centos, She  May Be a Saint , which was published in 2016. Other Bodies In my flammable skin, I grow shadows. Blood, substanceless. An arm a face birthmarks. A box of po...
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Four Tattoos from Halee Kirkwood (The Tattooed Poets Project)

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Our next tattooed poet is Halee Kirkwood, who sent us a quartet of tattoos to admire, including this one: Halee credits this to  Lana Bosak  ( @lanalikescats ) at  Tailorbird Tattoo  ( @tailorbirdtattoo ), one of many amazing Minneapolis tattoo parlors. She notes: "I was drawn to this raven on an antler as a poet who writes a lot about death, grief, and scavenging. Ravens are incredibly intelligent birds with the ability to adapt and problem-solve to an astounding capacity. Even when it seems that a thing has rotten, there might be nourishment to be found there. I try to embody the strength and cleverness of the raven every day." They also sent this cool cat tattoo: Halee tells us: "This little kitty was a flash tattoo I snatched up in the summer of 2018. I was feeling frustrated with cars in the Twin Cities - I am an avid city biker and have had more than my fair share of cars driving dangerously and close to me when I'm in a bike lane, and felt a kinship with the f...
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Rosemarie Dombrowski's Phoenix, and More (The Tattooed Poets Project)

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Our next tattooed poet is Rosemarie Dombrowski , who shared several of her tattoos, beginning with this stunning phoenix on her right leg: Rosemarie elaborated on this piece: "My connectedness to the phoenix is multi-faceted. When I was 14, I moved to Arizona after having suffered some trauma back in Missouri. Three months after arriving, my father died (back in Missouri). I had a son in my early twenties who was born with three congenital heart defects and later diagnosed with severe Autism. He’s nonverbal, but he’s also a pretty healthy 19-year- old now. In short, this city has re-birthed me and my son multiple times. And it keeps resurrecting so many of us. And then there’s Plath , rising from the ash ' and eating men like air .' Plath’s Phoenix represents the feminist in me. And the poet. And though I love this city dearly and was so ridiculously honored to become its first poet laureate, I already had the tattoo at that point. But it’s so fitting on so many levels now...
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Virginia Valenzuela on the Tattooed Poets Project

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I met our next tattooed poet, Virginia "Vinny" Valenzuela , at the Best American Poetry 2018 launch reading last fall. I noticed she had tattoos, mentioned the Tattooed Poets Project, and here she is! Vinny sent three angles of her tattoo, which I combined into a collage to capture the full scope of her tattoo: Vinny recalled the following background on her tattoo: The first version of this tattoo was created in my apartment in Brooklyn in 2015. I spent weeks drawing up a figure that was meant to be 'a divine version of myself.' It was inspired by Siddhartha , Shiva , and various works of art at the Rubin Museum in New York City. With sketch in hand, I went back to my friend’s tattoo shop in Westerville, Ohio, in the college town I had loved for three years before moving back home. I liked the tattoo, and I was proud that it was something I had drawn myself, but it just didn’t feel complete.  A year later, I went to my local shop in the Lower East Side, Daredevil T...
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