About

The Oberon Poetry magazine is a literary journal published by the Oberon Foundation, 
a nonprofit arts organization on Long Island.

Annual Oberon Poetry Prize

Is judged anonymously and is given for an unpublished poem in any style.

Annual Oberon Herbert Poetry Prize

The annual Oberon Herbert Poetry Prize will celebrate a poem that best reflects the main qualities of Herbert’s poetry: direct language, strong moral concerns, ironic tonality and semantic transparency.

Semantic transparency is understood here not in strictly linguistic or philosophical terms, but as Herbert defined it:

“... the characteristic of the sign consisting in this, that the attention is directed not towards the sign itself but to the object it denotes. The word is a window onto reality.

This new award will allow us simultaneously to promote Herbert’s poetry and celebrate the quality and variety of the poetry we publish.

STAFF

Mindy Kronenberg, Editor
Mindy Kronenberg is an award winning writer whose poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in hundreds of publications in print and online, the US and abroad. Her writing accolades include film, video, theater, and her work has been featured in art installations. She teaches writing, literature, and arts courses at SUNY Empire College and has conducted workshops in the community through Poets&Writers, BOCES, and the Walt Whitman Birthplace.

Ludmila Melchior-Yahil
Ludmila Melchior-Yahil is a political scientist, author, editor and translator who has collaborated with Oberon Magazine from its founding and joined its editorial team in 2014. Thanks to the demands of her professional and personal life, she has lived in many cultures and learned many languages, including Polish, Russian, Latin, French, English, Chinese, Japanese and Hebrew. She contributed to  Oberon several translations from Polish (2005; 2012; 2014) and, in her role as an editor, strives to expand the magazine’s  promotion of both American and world poetry.

Laura White

Jackie Raven, In memory
Jackie Raven was a dancer, a lyricist and a poet. She was one of the first members of the Oberon Foundation and the creator of its magazine. Jackie died of breast cancer in 2001 and we celebrate her life by publishing this annual collection of contemporary poetry. We miss her radiance, her wit and her spunk, and we still cherish and are inspired by her poems. The Japanese say: nakutezo hitowa koishi-karireru - with time her absence is felt more." - Ludmila Melchior-Yahil

Special thanks:
George Booth, cartoonist
Best known for his funny and original cartoons in THE NEW YORKER, has generously
gifted Oberon Foundation several drawings for use in the magazine including our logo.
Check out his movie coming soon