Poetry Breakfast Comes to a Close

I regret to say that Poetry Breakfast is now officially closed.  I’m no longer accepting or posting poetry submissions.

It’s been a wonderful year but I’m just not up for the challenge of being the editor anymore.  I’ve enjoyed reading all of the submissions and am now looking forward to finally having the chance to send out my own submissions to other poetry journals.

Poetry Breakfast is a wordpress blog.  If you are well versed in using wordpress and would like to take over Poetry Breakfast, feel free to email me at poetrybreakfast@yahoo.com.  I believe wordpress will let me turn over the administration of the blog to another wordpress user.  Our loyal readers and blog followers would certainly love it if someone could keep Poetry Breakfast alive.

Thank you to everyone who has submitted their work and to all those who have welcomed the many poets we published this past year.

For those who have poetry submissions pending, you’ll be hearing from me in the next day or two.  I haven’t read any submissions since at least a week before Hurricane Sandy came through here, so there is quite a backlog of submissions.  Obviously, your poems will not be accepted for publication here since we are now closed.  That certainly doesn’t mean your work was rejected.  Hopefully, everyone will find a place to publish their work in one of the many, many other poetry journals out there.

Thank you again for all the poetry submissions and for reading the poems of the many wonderful poets we’ve had the opportunity to publish here.

Sincerely, Isabel Sylvan, Editor

Poetry at the Ruskin – Elena Karina Byrne interview

http://www.Poetry.LA — Poet Elena Karina Byrne, Literary Programs Dir. of Ruskin Art Club, describes how an historic cultural venue is serving today’s L.A. literary scene and discusses her poetry.

When Love Arrives

Something a little new here…take a look see at this wonderful poem and then scroll down to find out all about the new line up at Poetry Breakfast.

So yes, there’s a little something different on the menu this morning.  But really, one can’t eat oat meal every single morning without soon thinking breakfast is just an unemotional function.  And as the cook, er editor, here at Poetry Breakfast, I can’t keep serving oat meal day after day after day.  Not when there’s a plethora of amazing poetry dishes out there.  It’s time to spice up the menu!

Here’s the daily menu:

Mondays:  Featured poem chosen from the best of those submitted to Poetry Breakfast

Tuesdays:  Video/Audio reading of a poem – selected by the editor

Wednesdays:  Featured poem chosen from the best of those submitted to Poetry Breakfast

Thursdays:  Interviews / Lectures by poets past and present, and the occasional poetry class

Fridays:  Featured poem chosen from the best of those submitted to Poetry Breakfast

Saturdays: Extended Poetry Readings – these will run 20 minutes to 2 hours.  Sit back, relax, and enjoy a Saturday Poetry Brunch

Sundays:  Featured poem chosen from the best of those submitted to Poetry Breakfast

Poetry submissions are still being accepted as usual for Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays featured poems.  All other days will be filled with videos and audios found and chosen by the editor.

Hopefully, by being a little more adventurous with our Poetry Breakfast we’ll all be able to have a broader taste and fuller experience.

You Can Now Read Poetry Breakfast on Facebook

Yup, that’s right. You can read all of Poetry Breakfast on Facebook now.  Thanks to a cool little app we were able to embed the entire Poetry Breakfast site onto our Facebook page.

Just visit the Poetry Breakfast Page at:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poetry-Breakfast/119756671474797

and click on the blue box that says “Read Poetry Breakfast on Facebook.”

Don’t worry, you’ll still find everything here at wordpress too.  We haven’t moved.  We’ve just made the site available on Facebook too.

Now you can catch your morning poem without leaving Facebook.

You can easily share your favorite morning poems with all your friends.

And hopefully, this convenient addition to Facebook will help give our featured morning poets the exposure they deserve!

Poetry Schedule Changes and Journal Updates

There’s no poem today.  However, there’s some updates and news that I hope you’ll take a moment to read.

First, I hope you’ll all take another read of “Stringing Beads” by Annmarie Lockhart.  You’ll notice it looks a little different today.  I had posted the correct title, but then posted a different poem by Annmarie.  But it has been corrected and now has the correct poem with the correct title.

Additionally:

New poems will appear 2-4 times a week instead of daily.

Response time for submissions is now 3-6 weeks.

The slimming down on poems and longer response times will hopefully make things more manageable.  It is not a matter of not having enough time to keep up with the journal.  It’s simply an issue of me not having enough concentration to give it the attention it deserves.  With my mother’s health declining and her surgeries, hospital stays, and care increasing, I’m finding my brain just is not capable of much these days.  If you have ever cared for an aging and ailing parent, you;re probably aware of how challenging it is to make your brain concentrate on anything.  And lately, the most my brain can handle in the evenings is NCIS reruns with the added benefit of not remembering any of the shows so they all seem new again.

So, from here forward, at least until I’m able to concentrate again, there will be 2-4 new poems each week and response times may take as long as 3-6 weeks.

Submissions are certainly still welcome and wanted.  It just might take a little longer to get a response.

That’s all for now.  Don’t forget to go and take a second look at “Stringing Beads” by Annmarie Lockhart http://poetrybreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/stringing-beads-by-annmarie-lockhart/

Sincerely,
Isabel Sylvan, Editor
Poetry Breakfast

Keep the poetry submissions coming!

Thank you to everyone who has submitted you work so far.  If you haven’t sent you poems in yet, there’s still a little time to get on the January schedule and start your New Year off with a publication credit.

We have a few spots reserved for some wonderful poets that have been invited share their work with all of us at Poetry Breakfast.  But we’ve made sure to leave room for plenty of unsolicited poems too.

You can check our Submission Guidelines for details on submitting your work.

Currently, almost half of January is already full –  and we just started accepting submissions two weeks ago!  But that means there’s still room for more…and don’t forget…February will be here before we know it.  So, we’re hoping your submission will keep coming in.

As for our inaugural week, January 1st – 7th, all days are still open.  We’re looking to put our best foot forward and haven’t picked the poems for those days yet.  If you’re looking to make it in time for the first week, you’ll need to send your submission by December 28th.  Submissions received after that will be considered for later dates in January and February.

That’s it for now.  Thanks again to all the poets who have submitted work.

Happy Holidays to All,

Isabel.

Call for Poetry Submissions

Poetry Breakfast is a new eZine/blog that will be serving a tasty new poem for breakfast every morning beginning January 1st, 2012.

Submission are needed to fill the menu and we’d love to see what you have to bring to the table.

You can catch the submission guidelines at

http://poetrybreakfast.wordpress.com/submission-guidelines/

Feel free to pass along this request for submissions to all your word eating friends.

Welcome!

Poetry Breakfast will be arriving January 1^st, 2012

Each morning will feature a new poem.  Start your day with the words we are all so unlikely to hear in our everyday conversations.  Words that are not a to-do list, not the office script, not work words, or pre-taped polite conversations.  Have a few sips of syllables that connect the truth inside all of us.  Nourish your soul with a language open enough to notice the beauty, pain, and wonder within and all around.

Then, you’re more than welcome to flip though the daily paper logs of politics and arrange calamities, ask strangers how they are without wanting to really know, repeat the same twenty lines with a few blanks filled in that you said at work yesterday, and the day before, and the day before, and so on.

But first, have your poetry breakfast.  Goes great with that cup of coffee.