re-animator

My debut poetry collection, Re-Animator, is now available through Ingram!

You can also currently find it at the below online retailers:

Amazon

B&N

Bookshop.org

Strand

Walmart.com

re-animator playlist

Here is a Spotify playlist of music referenced in my poetry collection, Re-Animator.

Re-Animator is available to order from Indolent Books. Cover photograph by Michael Galinsky.

dream master

 

My poem, "Dream Master," is now up at the lovely and scintillating, Disco Kitchen Mag.

dirtbag

 

My poem, "Dirtbag," here at @poet_ryhole.

Photo source here.

2 poems at the crawfish

The lovely journal, The Crawfish, just posted two of my poems, "Yearbook, 1986" and "Somewhere in Time" here. 

Both are in my forthcoming collection, Re-Animator, available to preorder here at Indolent Books.

re-animator

My first collection of poems, Re-Animator, forthcoming from Indolent Books in 2026, is now available to preorder!

See here for a link from Indolent Books to purchase.

"In this incisive, deliciously specific collection, Jeffery Berg inspirits the relics and ghosts of an American childhood and youth that is at once arrestingly familiar, fantastical, and fraught. Whether he’s evoking Jason from Friday the 13th or invoking the lyrics of “We Are the World,” he traces the masks and acts that disguise and reveal, while unraveling and reweaving the veils of identity, gender, and place. “I rewrite, I myth-make / the discos, cracked records, / Astaire, and bodies that didn’t make it / this long,” Berg writes. “I rework them into air, / into glass, shimmering, pricked / into a slivery frock / above pits of this earth.” Re-Animator takes us back and leads us forward, as we revisit our past and so reclaim our present, with generosity and wisdom."

—David Groff

poetry reading tonight

Reading poems tonight with Michael Montlack & David Groff, with music by Window Dancer in Ridgewood (my old stomping grounds).

ready 2 wear

My poem, "Ready 2 Wear," is now up here in the Special Mall Issue of Pine Hills Review.

roberta

My poem, "Roberta," after the 1982 film version of The World According to Garp, is now up in issue 18 of Impossible Archetype here.

explorer

My poem, "Explorer," was published here at Wayfarer Magazine as well.

forester

 

My poem, "Forester," is now up at Wayfarer Magazine.

poetry reading!

I am reading poems on Monday, 4/21 at One and One.

First Floor Walk Up Presents Bi-Weekly Readings of

Poetry and Prose at

One and One

76 E. 1st St. @ 1st Ave

F Train to 2nd Ave Station

FREE

Monday, April 21st, 7 PM

MEGHAN GRUPPOSO

Originally from the gorgeous woods of southern New Hampshire, Meghan Grupposo holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School. She is a co-founder, former COO and co-editor of NeuroNautic Institute Presents and Press. Meghan’s work can be found in her handbound chapbook, Bouquet (NeuroNautic Press), & in various anthologies, including NYC From the Inside (Blue Light Press), arriving at a shoreline and Escape Wheel (great weather for MEDIA), the Dada Journal Maintenant, Issues 14-17 (Three Rooms Press), Love Love Magazine, Polarity, & Rucksack a Global Poetry Patchwork’s multimedia project, Hair in the Wind. She’s a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee. Meghan happily resides in New York City with her two cats.

ANDREA DeANGELIS

Andrea DeAngelis is at times a poet, writer, shutterbug and musician living in New York City. Her writing has recently appeared in Carmina Magazine, Corvus Review, HauntedMTL and Bowery Gothic. Andrea also sings and plays guitar in the indie rock band MAKAR (www.makarmusic.com) who are currently recording their fourth album, Exit Earth. She tries not to disturb her neighbors by putting her guitar amp in the closet.

MARK PURNELL

Mark Purnell is a writer, investor and musician living in New York City. His writing has recently appeared in The Molotov Cocktail and he is currently working on his debut novel. Mark sings, writes and plays piano in the indie rock band MAKAR (www.makarmusic.com).

JEFFERY BERG

Jeffery Berg is a writer who lives in Jersey City. He received an MFA from NYU. His poetry has appeared in various journals, including most recently in Pine Hills Review. His film criticism can be found at Film-Forward. His debut poetry collection, RE-ANIMATOR, is forthcoming in 2026 from Indolent Books.

VIRGINIA RANDALL

Virginia Randall grew up on the Lower East Side and her work has appeared in Narratively, Italian-Americana, Straus Newspapers and various blogs. She is a freelance culture writer and former UPI reporter. This reading takes place where she bought her comics as a kid.

re-animator

I am pleased to officially announce that my debut poetry collection, Re-Animator, is slated for release in 2026 from Indolent Books! Preorder and cover reveal tk. 

the past

My poem, "The Past," is now up at Same Faces Collective in Issue 14.

shrine

My poem, "Shrine," is now up here at Oddball Magazine. It's indebted to Friday the 13th Part 2 and Talking Heads.

going to mars: the nikki giovanni project

My review for this involving doc about Nikki Giovanni is now up at Film-Forward. The film is worth checking out!

wineshop bop

 A new poem of mine to share.

-Jeffery Berg

three poems at pine hills review

It's been a while, so I'm excited to share three poems of mine that are now up at Pine Hills Review.

The poems are "Terms of Endearment," "Little Cathedral," and "Becoming a Piece of Work is Man."

I love the journal & their quirky and elegant presentation and am happy to also have audio readings of the poems as well.

Link here.

daddy

My review in the Los Angeles Review of Michael Montlack's enjoyable poetry collection, Daddy, here! 

city girl

"City Girl," a poem from Twilight Prince, featuring the Nicholas Brittel score from If Beale Street Could Talk.