Beth LaPorte received her B.F.A. in Photography from the prestigious Pratt Institute. She has lived in Brooklyn since the fall of 2002. While focusing on photography, she also worked on video, sculpture, and drawing. A new face in the art world, she has a fresh outlook with a wide range of subjects to explore. She has recently exhibited at the "Ex Gallery", "The Ludlow Artist Series", "Tillies Art Space" and a numerous number of group and juried shows. She has recently been selected to be published in the spring volume of “Renascent Photography Vol.-3 “out of California. This is a 100 page full color paper back book featuring photographers from around the world. This book will come out in the spring
of 2006.
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Fido
Jamey Hecht
Under the iron wagon of the past
Roll the exceptional bone and ball
Irretrievably inserted up oblivion. My name
Means “I believe,” but I’m all finished now.
Tonight I’m cold by the telephone pole;
Skewered by fever, I’m still outside
Pining for my great pink rubber ball,
My cow-bone trailing ragged ligaments:
Without you I’m rain and vapor,
Pouring through the chain-link fence,
Heartsick for the day that’s gone,
The fatted summer where I raced the sun
Still young, still chasing that sidereal car.
*Although he’s currently stuck in L.A., Jamey Hecht has lived in Williamsburg, Fort Greene and Greenpoint. He is senior staff writer at www.fromthewilderness.com; the author of several books; and his poetry, fiction, and political writing have appeared in The Black Warrior Review, River City, The Sycamore Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Cloverdale Review, Nerve, English Literary History (ELH), The Sixteenth Century Journal, Poetry Calendar, Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, The Progressive Populist, Counterpunch, Sundry, Berlinerkunst, Media Monitors Network, American Book Review and The Kennedy Assassination Chronicles. You can visit his website at www.jameyhecht.com.
