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Created by Transylvania University professors Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova, the Lexington Tattoo Project involves 250 residents of Lexington, Ky., having a part of a poem about Lexington tattooed on them. The organizers are photographing each tattoo and creating a video that animates the poem, which will be read by the poet, Bianca Spriggs. (Read the full poem here.)
The Morris Book Shop is a sponsor of the project, and participants include several staff members and spouses and store owner Wyn Morris, who said, "I just got my first tattoo at 49!" Morris and some of the artists and others involved are discussing publishing a book on the project, which he called "one of the neatest things we've been involved with in a while." In photo: "used to be," Morris's part of the poem.