The Tattooed Poets Project - Caroline Goodwin

Today's Tattooed Poet is Caroline Goodwin.<br /><br />She sent along this photo of a clematis flower that was tattooed on her belly in the early '90s in Juneau, Alaska:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxW9__9slLqKqCype47WI3_o-PmBA-nuV8XFuEeUvNkdXm5OZeWp9J4dMko_5MzohXiy5L7csyhL1OQB9kabPHU5wI1lNO22FVFzWJTfluafFNYVK6ped8YTvqzYzzsaVslRw6A1Kl/s1600/Goodwin+2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457557684088341554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxW9__9slLqKqCype47WI3_o-PmBA-nuV8XFuEeUvNkdXm5OZeWp9J4dMko_5MzohXiy5L7csyhL1OQB9kabPHU5wI1lNO22FVFzWJTfluafFNYVK6ped8YTvqzYzzsaVslRw6A1Kl/s400/Goodwin+2.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 360px;" /></a><br />She says she chose the <a href="http://www.homeofclematis.net/">clematis</a> image from "a book of botanical sketches at the <a href="http://www.juneau.lib.ak.us/library/">Juneau Public Library</a>". Why this one? "Because I love purple flowers -and vines".<br /><br />The artist, Caroline recalls, was <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mister_lang">Dave Lang</a> at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hightidetattoo">High Tide Tattoo</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0bRtoTYFfLFpVVGnUPJB0HyP1-87MpIFQ6D6AfS95QpEWoWMyT7P8caH0WnkI_Ks9JxoQTWl3URxjtTrO1bAgYJQGYoD7kPj7_liaczPSrZZB4BOwfFN9EDbt8lUjVbxOhOKFPx3/s1600/high+tide.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457559696616264834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0bRtoTYFfLFpVVGnUPJB0HyP1-87MpIFQ6D6AfS95QpEWoWMyT7P8caH0WnkI_Ks9JxoQTWl3URxjtTrO1bAgYJQGYoD7kPj7_liaczPSrZZB4BOwfFN9EDbt8lUjVbxOhOKFPx3/s320/high+tide.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 194px;" /></a><br />Caroline Goodwin moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from <a href="http://www.sitka.com/">Sitka</a>, Alaska in 1999 to attend <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/">Stanford</a> as a <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/creativewriting/stegner.html">Wallace Stegner Fellow</a>. She teaches poetry and nonfiction writing workshops at <a href="http://www.cca.edu/">California College of the Arts</a> and, with Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg of Berkeley, is the publisher of <a href="http://macahu.blogspot.com/">MaCaHu</a> poetry chapbook press.<br /><br />Check out one of Caroline's poems <a href="http://oxypoet.blogspot.com/2010/04/tattooed-poets-project-caroline-goodwin.html">here</a>, over on <a href="http://oxypoet.blogspot.com/">BillyBlog</a>.

The Tattooed Poets Project - Caroline Goodwin

Today's Tattooed Poet is Caroline Goodwin. She sent along this photo of a clematis flower that was tattooed on her belly in the early ...

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