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The final week of April offers quite a few opportunities to celebrate National Poetry Month, including the Party Like a Poet bash at Housing Works on Tuesday, and readings by Jorie Graham and Dorothea Lasky on Wednesday and Thursday. Bring your toughest grammar questions to BookCourt on Tuesday and pose them to copy editor extraordinaire, Mary Norris. Make sure to tweet at us and let us know where you went!

Nothing says you love something, and will love it always and forever, like having it permanently drilled into your skin. Luckily for us change-seeking-pain-avoiders there are temporary literary tattoos that look real *wink wink* and are sure to start many bookish conversations.

I’ve noticed that while Sir Mix-A-Lot’s eyes are on something…else, you’re busy lusting after big books, so shout your love with Tainted Tats Baby Got Books temporary tattoo and try not to get the song stuck in your head.

Have a kinship with Walter White over his love for Walt Whitman? TheFickleTattoo has the Whitman package, which includes a quote, a portrait and a leaf tattoo. Thoreau and Dickinson are also available.

If you still have too many feels from The Fault in Our Stars, PopGeekTattoos has a pain-free way to express your emotions with their Okay? Okay temporary tattoo.

Tattly’s Book Lover tattoo proves the best way to shop for books is with a giraffe—just make sure you have enough room on your shelves for all the books and a high enough ceiling for your new friend.

If you regularly stay up too late reading because you suffer from just-one-more-chapter syndrome MossandFerndesignco created the Sleep Less Read More tattoo just for you.

For the true literary pirate lover Litographs has the perfect Treasure Island tattoo sure to garner you some respect—gold sold separately.

Can’t decide between books and cats? Don’t. Equally love them both with SmashTat’s 2 Cat Book tattoo and 3 Book Lover tattoos.

Need something a bit more intense to represent your literary love? Tattify offers the Bookworm package with enough designs for a tattoo sleeve! Also perfect to share with your significant other or friends, especially Peter Pan and The Perks of Being a Wallflower fans.

Did you find a design to test-drive before making the permanent decision or a few you’re happy to temporarily sport? Tell us your dream bookish tattoo.

This was not an easy post to write. This week’s Top 10 Tuesday, hosted by The Broke & the Bookish, is all about our favorite authors. Ten of them. That’s it. I could easily add another fifty names to the list that follows, but I don’t want to keep you here all day.

Come out and celebrate all of the bookish events happening in New York City this week. Grab your favorite literary tote bag and get ready for the final battle of Game of Totes at Housing Works. Yearning for some poetry? Check out our picks for Monday and Friday. Learn all the insider information about one of the most beloved Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes at Brooklyn Public Library on Tuesday. Watch a new adaptation of Moby Dick performed at WORD or share your stories at Housing Works. Tweet at us and tell us where you went!

image via flickr

Headed to a convention soon? Will there be cosplayers? 

Cosplay photography can be daunting. Are you holding cosplayers up? Will they say no? Will a crowd of oblivious attendees walk between your model and your camera? But the average cosplay photograph for the roaming photographer takes all of 10 seconds to shoot, and most cosplayers are eager to participate and be photographed. These three tips will simply take things up to the next level. After all, these cosplayers worked like hell to prepare their beautiful cosplay, so you, the photographer, should make a little effort to take the best photos you can. 

Host Bob Clayton at the game board in 1972 via Wikipedia.

First let’s play how old-we-are: raise your hand if you remember the Classic Concentration game hosted by Alex Trebek in the ‘80s…or maybe one of the hosts from the ‘50s, ‘60s or ’70s when it was just Concentration?

Part of the show had contestants solving a rebus puzzle which uses pictures, symbols and/or letters to create a word or phrase you have to guess. Naturally, I had to bookify the rebus puzzle, so below you have 14 book titles to solve. As a hint each puzzle will list the amount of words in the title, the author’s name scrambled, and the border colors might be from the book cover.

Ready?…Go!