The Tattooed Poets Project: Annette C. Boehm

Our next tattooed poet is Annette C. Boehm.

She credits both tattoos in this photo to Brian at Hattiesburg Tattoo (Hattiesburg, MS).

Annette explains:

"The Ex Libris tattoo is a 100 year-old book plate design I fell in love with. I like apples a lot: My chapbook The Five Parts of Love has apples on the cover, and my favorite poem (Dylan Thomas' 'Fern Hill') has a line about being the 'prince of the apple towns.' Since I'm also a book-nerd, this seemed like a great choice for a first tattoo.

I'm also into comics: The She-Hulk was a gift to myself for passing my exams (I'm just finishing up my PhD)."

Annette also sent us the following poem, which can be found in The Five Parts of Love:

lithium, lead

tin, magnesium, mercury,
uranium,
save gold, silver, -
all metals will burn

your voice
the 9 volt block
smoothing down steel
wool into flame

with what eyes
you have me see

~~~

Annette C. Boehm is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi. She serves as a poetry reader for Memorious -- A Journal of New Verse and Fiction. Originally from Germany, she's a poet and also a Whovian. She keeps a book blog here: http://outsideofacat.wordpress.com.

Thanks to Annette for her contribution to the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday!

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Devon's First Panel (at the NYC Tattoo Convention)

As we continue to recap some of my favorite tattoos that I spotted at the NYC Tattoo Convention, let's take a look at this piece on Devon:

Devon told me that this is the "first part of a half-sleeve that's [going to be] all Marvel panels of all my different favorite characters."

When I asked her why she started with this particular panel, she replied, "Thor is one of my favorite heroes and Loki is the only villain I've ever cared about."

She cares enough about the super villain, that Loki is the moniker she adopted as a referee in the New York City men's roller derby league, The New York Shock Exchange.

She credited this tattoo to Vinny Romanelli from Red Rocket Tattoo in Manhattan. Red Rocket and Vinny are no strangers to Tattoosday, and work from Vinny has appeared previously on Tattoosday here. Clicking the Red Rocket tag below will bring up all the work from them we've posted over the years.

I look forward to checking back with Devon in the future to see how her Marvel half-sleeve evolves.

Thanks to Devon for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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