CUSTOM & CLOTHING

by Jennifer Tamayo

CUSTOM & CLOTHING

DRESS IS METHODOLOGY
IN THE FIRST STAGES OF WRITING, I WRITE NAKED
IN THE FINAL STAGES OF EDITING, I PUT ON A FINE VINTAGE 
DRESS AND
                                                                                      ROLL ON THE GROUND
I’M BEING DISTANT HERE:
THE THING I’M TRYING TO GET UNDER MY SKIN AND INTO THE 
WORK



                                                                                                   REDRESS




There were a few years I couldn’t do a reading without a 
covering over my face, perhaps a shame over the kind of 
work I was reading. Now, I refuse to do a reading without 
some kind of mask-up, even if that means eye shadow so 
thick it makes my lids droop.

THE POETICS OF COSTUMERY:

YOU ARE LOOKING AT ME

Photos by Sean Cain.

Bio: JT loves needles and threads. Her manuscript, Red Mistakes Read Missed Aches Read Mistakes Red Missed Aches, was selected by Cathy Park Hong as the 2010 winner of the Gatewood Prize and is scheduled for publication in Spring 2011 (Switchback Books). JT lives and works in New York City. She is the Managing Editor at Futurepoem.