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Today's poem comes to us from Rob Talbert: it became okay Right now is fleeting with the room to do what was planned. I have purpo...

Today's poem is from Lea Banks: IT WAS NOTHING Nothing is so beautiful as spring. Gerard Manley Hopkins Something like the ...

Today's poem comes to us from Jackie Sheeler , who appeared last year on BillyBlog as part of the Tattooed Poets Project. The New Yorke...

Today's poem comes to us from Chenelle Milford: Little Red Riding Hood Piano breaking as keys break beneath my bloodied fingers. I want ...

Today's poem comes to us from Cathryn Cofell. TATTOO You can’t help but think of your virginity as you gaze for the last time at t...

Today's poem from a tattooed poet comes to us from Seth Berg. His book Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory will be published by ...

Today's addition to the Tattooed Poets Project is Tameka Mullins, who writes the blog Lyric Fire . Here is a poem entitled "When Yo...

Today's poem was submitted by Caroline Goodwin. Entitled "In Summer Plumage," this poem was published in Mantis ( Stanford Un...

Today's poem is from tattooed poet is Joseph Millar: LABOR DAY Even the bosses are sleeping late in the dusty light of September. The pa...

Today's poem comes to us from Minneapolis, from Erica Rivera: UNTITLED FOR L I. His couch swallowed your stuff . That’s how thi...

Today's poem comes to us from here in New York City, from Christine Hamm . Teen Angel That year, everyone had your same name, but spelle...

Today's poem is from Mark Nickels. It appears in his book Cicada , published in 2000 by Rattapallax Press. Mark adds that "it seems...

Today's poem is from Nikoletta Nousiopoulos: the dream he won’t get out of white walls are free wings blank open me’s there is no voice ...

Our second installment of this year's Tattooed Poets Project also appeared last year on the site ( here ). Adam chose to share this poem...

We're launching the 2nd annual BillyBlog-Tattoosday National Poetry Month project with the following poem by Theresa Edwards: Holly Rose...