Oberon Poetry Magazine
The winners of the 2023 poetry competition for Oberon poetry magazine:
First Prize:
Azure Hall, Cheyenne, WY
“Division and Surrender of Property Short Form”
Honorable Mention
Malissa Ann Frances Priebe, Staten Island, NY
“Kitchen Contemplation According to Buddha”
Honorable Mention
Amelia Thomas, Kannapolis, NC
“I do not love you”
Honorable Mention
Lauren Dausch, Turner’s Falls, MA
“on learning I’m neurodivergent at age 30”
Honorable Mention
Derek Alan Porter, Ashland, Oregon
“For a Daughter I Thought Was On the Way”
The 20th Anniversary Issue
Oberon Poetry Magazine's Annual Contest offers a prize of $1,000.00 for the winning poem.
All entries are judged anonymously and past judges have included Louis Simpson,
Siv Cedering, Lewis Asekoff and George Wallace.
Starting in 2021 Oberon Poetry magazine will award a special annual prize of $500, the Oberon Herbert Poetry Prize in honor of the Polish poet, Zbigniew Herbert. The idea for this new prize was triggered by a 2020 poem “With My Sister, in a Tornado Warning” by Shellie Harwood who became our original winner for that year.
All accepted submissions will be eligible also for this special prize that will be awarded by the representatives of the Oberon project.
Oberon honors the memory of Claire Nicolas White (June 18, 1925 - May 26, 2020) founding editor and guiding light. She will be missed.
"The poetry in Claire Nicolas White's anthology strikes me as something new in American Poetry. There is no straining after effect, yet in poem after poem, surprise, and in poem after poem, delight. In most of the poems in this collection rules don't apply."
- Louis Simpson
"Oberon is a remarkable anthology of what is best in American poetry. I love the volume's clarity, certainly topographically, as poems and illustrations 'furrow' along the page, and I have in mind the origin of the word 'verse', from the Latin 'versera' to turn at the end of a furrow with a plow. I love the variety of voices and visions, a gathering of the world's human voices anointed by the caul of poetry."
- Vince Clemente