Emory Shares Two Cool Tattoos

I met Emory last month at the 35th Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade (@mermaidparade). She shared this cool tattoo:

For those of you unfamiliar with the Kentile Floors sign, this was a highly visible landmark perched high over the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.

Louie Ozomek (@louiescustomtattooing) at Hand of Glory Tattoo (@handofglorytattoo) in Brooklyn did a nice job replicating the sign on Emory' biceps.

The sign was dismantled in 2014, but Emory wanted to "preserve its memory" on her arm as a tribute to the familiar symbol that stood in Brooklyn for sixty-five years.

Emory also shared this piece on the back of her other arm:

She got this at Magic Cobra Tattoo Society (@magiccobratattoo) in Brooklyn, as part of a fundraiser called Party to Protect, in support of Planned Parenthood (@plannedparenthood).

Thanks to Emory for sharing her cool tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

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Launching the 9th Annual Tattooed Poets Project Extravaganza with Matthew Rohrer

We're launching the ninth annual Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday with work from Matthew Rohrer.

I first reached out to Matthew after Bianca Stone (whose own tattoo was featured here) recommended I check him out. This was more than five years ago and we were finally able to assemble a post this year with a rather relevant tattoo and poem for 2017.

Here's one of Matthew's tattoos: 

Matthew explains:

�I had this done on my birthday at Hand of Glory (@handofglorytattoo) in Brooklyn. It�s the 'anti-fascist circle' or the Iron Front Circle. People drew it over official swastikas in Germany in the 30s before the group was destroyed by the Nazis. The original design was done by a guy who was the lab assistant to Pavlov. The 3 arrows are supposedly the 3 pillars of anti-fascism�.but accounts vary about what those 3 pillars really are.

I wanted to mark myself as unacceptable to these motherfuckers and so this was my birthday present to myself.� 

The artist at Hand of Glory that inked this was Jim Gentry (@gentrytattoos).

Appropriately, he offered up the following poem:

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Thanksgiving morning the xmas trees

at Greg�s Quality Xmas Trees

are bound and gagged

I drive by in the rain

I feel like a hundred bucks

I crest the hill

a couple miles from the sea

wipers scrape and jump

the pumpkin pie sends me a text

Where are you?

I�m coming, I�m on my way

I have to change lanes

here on Ditmas avenue

everyone wants to turn right

the whole fucking country!

~ ~ ~

Matthew Rohrer is the author of several books, most recently THE OTHERS, published by Wave Books in spring 2017. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at NYU.

Thanks to Matthew for helping us launch our ninth season of tattooed poets on Tattoosday!

This entry is �2017 Tattoosday. The poem and tattoo are reprinted with the poet's permission.

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