NEW RELEASES from Propaganda Press

Homemade Custer
by CEE

$5.07

Concept chapbook about legends, facts, and fiction surrounding General Custer and the Indians who fought the Battle of Little Bighorn during Custer’s infamous Last Stand. An intimate comparison between the romanticism of Old West and the stark realism of the contemporary Custer Battlefield creates this imagined tale of a day that shaped history.

Twisting Free
by Jessica Harman

$5.00

Chapbook of poems about love, loss, a discovery of the self, and twisting free from the ties that bind.  Intimate, personal, and full of emotional depth, these poems will take you through one woman’s journey to free herself from what holds her down and to discover love along the way in places we sometimes forget to look.

Rachel, My Torment
by Patricia Hickerson

$5.00

Chapbook of poems about the loss of the author’s daughter, Rachel, focusing on the daughter’s bipolar disorder, a tumultuous relationship between mother and child, the guilt and pain that accompany deep loss, and the endearing knowledge that love — no matter how strained or painful — conquers all.

Songs for Oblivion
by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal

$4.00

Chapbook of poems about love, loss, tuning in to nature, understanding the futility, necessity, and life-giving aspects of poetry. This collection is crisp, to the point, and poignant, giving readers an emotional look through the author’s eyes as he explores his world to discover that sometimes life and love are found (and lost) in strange places.

americanEyes V. 1
by Michael D. Grover

$5.00

Chapbook of poems in a series about america with the lowercase a: the america fueled on society, capitalism, a hierarchy of power and greed, and the death of art; that perpetuates homelessness, poverty, and a lower class, and feeds on those who perceivably can’t fight back. Until they fight back.  These are the words of the author fighting back.

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Still Life is a Human
by CEE

$4.98

Chapbook of poems inspired by antique Carreras cigarette cards of Old Staffordshire Figures. Contains the entire series of early 1900’s cigarette cards facing the poems inspired by the collection, spanning everything from mythological gods to football to the author understanding as young as kindergarten age that he simply wasn’t like anyone else he knew.

For a Few Days More
by Brad King

$6.00

The first published chapbook of Army veteran Brad King, this book is fueled with raw emotion, biting wit, and colorful language of love and loss, football as a metaphor, sexuality, art appreciation.  Contains thirty-four poems of refreshing honesty and of coming to understand one’s place in the world.

ill-fated solutions
by Joseph Veronneau

$3.00

Book number seventeen of our Pocket Protector series. Poems of life, drugs, sorrow, exploration of the self, and coming to terms with all that life throws at you.  Veronneau’s words are at once realistic and floating like a drug-induced haze into the ethereal, the imagined, the believed.  He writes from the heart and doesn’t bog the poetry down with poetry.

Poiesis #5
by various authors

$4.00

This litzine covers every emotion and topic, from tattoos to black widow spiders, from the AARP to Cosmo Magazine, from atheism to barlife to domestic abuse to Bob Kaufman, ten-year-old bank robbers to BP oil spills to pearls to holidays to Civil War to women who need to put on some different boots. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want more.

Retro
by Harry Calhoun

$6.00

A harking back to the glorious days of yore, these are poems from Harry’s younger days that he is still at peace with. Written in the 1980’s and 90’s, representative of some of Harry’s best work that stands the test of time, gathered in a collection for the first time. Emotional, gripping, cerebral, thought-provoking, emptying, humorous, important.

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Piñata
by Adam Moorad

$5.00

A stuffed llama full of twenty-five poems of candied snark, failed romance, successful uncertainty, and a dabble in quantum theory with breathy titles, clumsy wreckages, and steamy results. Funny, charming, thought-provoking, fresh, uncertainly certain.

Obligatory Abe
by CEE

$5.65

Our special Presidents Day release contains thirty-one poems and thirty-three vintage postcards celebrating, debunking, or telling of the life, death, myths, and human qualities of Abraham Lincoln from the viewpoint of an Illinoisan. Touching, controversial, obsessive, and poignant.

Frequently Asked Questions
by Howie Good

$5.00

Forty-nine prose poems by the master of imagery. Heavy detail without giving you too many concrete images, without telling you too much, simply leaving you to picture fragments of moments as if they were your own memories. Touching, punchy, specific, beautiful. Clipped sparks of a grand flame to create an even grander fire.

Foody's Drinkie Market
by CEE

$4.88

If the bullet breakfast cereal on the cover is not a warning to watch what you eat, then indeed, the poems are. Thirty-one poems and nine photographs of close encounters of the food kind, for you to ingest with utter delight. Funny, quirky, savory, witty, experimental.

The Wonder of It All
by Elizabeth P. Glixman

$6.00

Life and love and all things in between; the quirky and the unthinkable; talking dogs and poisoned tuna and kidnapping babies and Nancy Pelosi's refrigerator; a journey through an eclectic Wonderland that would even make Alice curiouser and curiouser. Thirty-two poems written by a poet whose work describes our present zany and mad world.

Incessant Shining
By Kevin M. Hibshman

$5.00

Twenty-two poems celebrating love, nature, incredible times in a sordid past, and an understanding of a spiritual world that so few ever touch. Hibshman's work is honest, bare, essential, and kind in a time when shock value is valued too grossly. Read these words by lamplight with a cup of hot tea or sprawled in a wildflower field without worldly cares.

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