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Jeffery Berg

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Poetry, Film, Books, Tunes. First book of poems, RE-ANIMATOR, coming in 2026 from Indolent Books.

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“Grain-Free” by Ben Gunsburg less / full of bread, / less haunted by money. / Free of pain. Free of dairy.

"Grain-Free" by Ben Gunsburg

"less / full of bread, / less haunted by money. / Free of pain. Free of dairy."

04.03.2026 21:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This looks awesome.

26.02.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Poem by Jeffery Berg - oddball magazine Artwork by Ira Joel Haber

"Shrine," a FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2-inspired poem, forthcoming in my debut poetry collection, RE-ANIMATOR. oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-jeff... 🖤

26.02.2026 16:04 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Elvis’s dynamic talent and charisma are highlighted in the knockout late-career concert set pieces of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC. 🌟 film-forward.com/star-reviews... @film4ward.bsky.social @neon-rated.bsky.social

20.02.2026 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much! 💙

19.02.2026 11:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

KOKUHO is a "classical, enigmatic, and distinctive picture," with stunning kabuki performances. film-forward.com/epic/kokuho 💙

06.02.2026 19:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Debut Poetry Collection by Jeffery Berg Jeffery Berg's debut poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR is now available for pre-order directly from Indolent Books. Order yours now!

In order to raise funds for the production of RE-ANIMATOR, I have a goal of reaching at least 100 preorders. I am nearly there! Your support helps a vital literary press to survive and thrive. Thank you so much for your generosity. ❤️

27.01.2026 17:46 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Debut Poetry Collection by Jeffery Berg Jeffery Berg's debut poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR is now available for pre-order directly from Indolent Books. Order yours now!

In order to raise funds for the production of RE-ANIMATOR, I have a goal of reaching at least 100 preorders. I am nearly there! Your support helps a vital literary press to survive and thrive. Thank you so much for your generosity. ❤️

27.01.2026 17:46 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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the 2025 jdb awards! Again, just for fun, here are my personal awards for 2025 films! Picture MARTY SUPREME nominees:  HAMNET IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT THE MASTER...

For fun... my personal film awards & nominees for 2025. 💫

22.01.2026 13:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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jeffery berg's top films of 2025! Amid industry shifts of looming mergers and ever-shrinking theatrical-to-streaming windows, a number of vibrant, original pictures broke thr...

Letting go of the year... My Top Films of 2025. 🎞️ 💙

21.01.2026 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025: A Video Countdown to watch previous video countdowns please visit: https://www.videocountdowns.com/ this year's video is once again in support of the Palestine Children's…

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025

A Video Countdown

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Seeds Willie Head Jr. in Seeds (Film Forum) Lyrical and immersive, Brittany Shyne’s documentary is a stirring portrait of the ordinary, day-to-day working lives and experiences of Black farmers in rural ...

SEEDS is a lyrical, immersive documentary of Black farmers in rural Georgia. My Film-Forward review here. film-forward.com/star-reviews... 🖤

17.01.2026 17:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

08.01.2026 03:53 👍 5156 🔁 2442 💬 58 📌 119

Awesome. 💙

06.01.2026 13:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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jeffery berg's top 10 albums of 2025! 2025 brought forth a slew of tense, fraught records across all genres. 10. NO VALIDATION / Che Noir & The Other Guys Mesmerizing flows, jazz...

Here are my Top 10 Albums of 2025! 💙

05.01.2026 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An amazing poetry collection & a discovery for me. So glad I found & rescued it from the withdrawn shelf at the library. 💜

05.01.2026 01:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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jeffery berg's top 10 singles of 2025! Here goes my Top 10 singles of 2025! 10. Voodoo / Micah Dailey-White  A grand, mischievous neo-soul doozy. 9.  Night to Night / ...

Here goes my Top 10 Singles / Tracks of 2025! 🎵💙

02.01.2026 21:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two poems, “Ponderosa” & “Afterlife,” from the Southern Gothic Issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🩶 shorturl.at/hZBBG

02.01.2026 13:02 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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My poem, "Handy Man," inspired by the film SMOOTH TALK, here in the Southern Gothic issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🖤

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23.12.2025 17:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FALL 2025 ISSUE PDF of Fall 2025: Southern GothicDownload

Three of my poems, "Handy Man," "Ponderosa," & "Afterlife," are included here in the Southern Gothic issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🖤

19.12.2025 22:12 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Best Films of 2025 Andrés Roca Rey in Afternoons of Solitude (Film at Lincoln Center) I recently participated in an awards ballot, along with roughly 30 other critics, to select the best in film in 16 categories: bes...

I wrote about SENTIMENTAL VALUE & ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER for Film-Forward's Top 10 Films of 2025. 💜

17.12.2025 19:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All in the Family - Sock and a Sock, Shoe and a Shoe
All in the Family - Sock and a Sock, Shoe and a Shoe YouTube video by Scarlett OHara

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15.12.2025 16:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh yes! Have a read, y’all!

12.12.2025 21:15 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you. 💙

12.12.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two Poems//Jeffery Berg — THE CRAWFISH Yearbook, 1986 It was a great year, cries the cartoon bald eagle, bouquet of balloons in its talons’ grip. “Man in Motion” boosts gray, misty mornings with brassy synths, as a man breaks free to ris...

Two poems of mine, "Yearbook, 1986" & "Somewhere in Time," here at The Crawfish. 💚

12.12.2025 20:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Dead Man's Wire Dacre Montgomery, left, and Bill Skarsgård in Dead Man's Wire (TIFF) Gus Van Sant is no stranger to the antihero, whether it’s the drug addict pharmacist thieves of Drugstore Cowboy or the hustlers...

Review of Gus Van Sant's DEAD MAN'S WIRE. "This story could be akin to a modern Western—the story of a little guy against the system, which remains pertinent, especially as America’s economic gap deepens." film-forward.com/crime/dead-m...

12.12.2025 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Debut Poetry Collection by Jeffery Berg Jeffery Berg's debut poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR is now available for pre-order directly from Indolent Books. Order yours now!

From David Groff (@davidgroff.bsky.social): "... Berg inspirits the relics and ghosts of an American childhood and youth that is at once arrestingly familiar, fantastical, and fraught." Preorder my poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR here at Indolent Books! ❤️

09.12.2025 15:09 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Jeffery Berg | Discover, Review, Connect Today — New Jersey Film Critics Circle Explore Jeffery Berg's film reviews, poetry, and contributions to Film-Forward, highlighting his career in media and arts from Jersey City.

I am now a newly minted member of the New Jersey Film Critics Circle. 💙 www.njfilmcriticscircle.com/jefferyberg

08.12.2025 16:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Come Closer Lia Elalouf in Come Closer (Shai Peleg/Greenwich Entertainment) The depth and nuance of loss are well-rendered in Israeli filmmaker Tom Nesher’s directorial debut, rooted in her own personal grief....

The depth and nuance of loss are well-rendered in Tom Nesher’s COME CLOSER. My Film-Forward @film4ward.bsky.social) review here.

06.12.2025 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0