Meet SMP's newest intern:

Juan Payan-Lopez is going to be a senior at the University of New Hampshire; he double majors in Business Administration: Finance and English. Payan-Lopez's passion began in the 10^th grade while reading contemporary classics such as Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, and more old-school style classics, such as Homer’s, The Odyssey. He did community service for a year at the school’s library and saturated his mind through voracious reading with extensive vocabulary, fundamental punctuation, experimental prose, and sharp syntax. During Payan-Lopez's college career, he has constructed his own creative writing blog and published works in his college newspaper. Payan-Lopez is very excited to be a part of Steady Moon Press.

Amanda Clark's fourth book of poetry, Through the Blinds, is now available for pre-order! To pre-order this book, click below:

http://bigredac.wix.com/steady-moon-press#!feautured_books/cee5

For all you poets out there, Steady Moon Press is going to be opening for submissions in the next couple of weeks. Our first anthology is going to be called, "The Poet's Voice (poems about writing)" authors are encouraged to send 2-5 poems for publication. Chosen authors will be published in the anthology, featured on our website, and receive 1 free copy of the anthology. Keep an eye out for when submissions open, and start preparing if you are interested. Happy writing!

Here is SMP's new intern's biography:
Catherine Faber began honing in on writing as her favorite subject of
study in high school creative writing and journalism classes. Years later,
after finishing an English major at Dartmouth College, poetry is her
passion. Her poems draw from her international childhood experiences, the
pain of loss, and the struggle of an adolescent trying to work her way into
the adult word. Her writing had been in Dartmouth's student publication
Bazaar, and online in articles for travel resource aggregate websites
bulstack.com and UpStateNH.com.

I wanted to post a heads up on SMP. There have been questions about the SMP format. For individual poetry books, we accept poetic narratives. This means a collection of poems that tells a story. This also extends to poetic diaries (a chronological display of personal poetry relating to one's life) as well as poetic memoirs (A topic illustrated through poetry on personal accomplishments, struggles, life changes, etc.) For our poetic anthologies we accept prose poetry, free verse, and traditional poetry. As for prose, this is often a confusing word. Prose is offering information in a more straightforward manner than that of poetry. Prose also is usually displayed in paragraph form. SMP does not encourage submitting common prose.

SMP does, however, encourage sending prose poetry. Yes, this is confusing, but different. Prose poetry can break away from traditional meters etc. but still offers a strong emotional effect and imagery. In other words, there is a deeper meaning to prose poetry than just conveying information, and there is poetic structure, not just paragraphs.

Additionally, SMP encourages free verse. This is when poets purposely break away from tradition, and write freely with uniquely structured stanzas and no fixed metrical pattern.

This is a very confusing topic, but people often confuse prose, prose poetry, and free verse. For even more of a break down on this topic look here:
http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/91-prose.htm

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Steady Moon Press welcomes our new intern, Catherine Faber.

Steady Moon Press is trying to promote the business by encouraging others to like our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Steady-Moon-Press/160891497374524 If you haven't already, go to the page above and click like! You will be able to be in tune with SMP publications, contests, merchandise, deals and more! Thanks for your support and Happy fourth!

Steady Moon Press is looking for interns! You can work from home and gain great experience, as well as be part of the publication process. Check it out.


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