About

A lifelong New Englander, Jeff Bernstein watches the seasons slowly turn from a hillside in Central Vermont with an occasional foray into town or even across the border into Canada. The dogs maintain sanity and provide all forms of relief. Poetry is his favorite and earliest art form (he can’t draw a whit or hold a tune).

He would most have liked to have been, like Thoreau, “an inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms… [a] surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across-lot routes.”

He is the author of two chapbooks, “Interior Music” and “Nowhere Near Morning” as well as a full-length collection “Nightfall, Full of Light” published by Turning Point; his new collection, “The Ancient Ways,” was completed over the last several years of the pandemic and is being submitted now to potential publishers.