Alpine Strangers is Nate McFadden and Cody Grimm’s exploration of the stories that make us human, often found in the unlikeliest of places.
A finalist in the poetry category for the 13th USA Book Awards, and named an exemplar book of poetry by The Washington Independent Review of Books, Stephen Scott Whitaker’s All My Rowdy Friends explores addiction, gender, jail, pop culture, and family. Whitaker is the author of three previous chapbooks of poetry.
West Coast meets East Coast. All My Rowdy Friends is darkly joyful. It’ll make your head spin-- Podcast Weekly
All My Rowdy Friends, published by PunksWritePoems Press, from Chesterfield, VA gets the California remix by Nate McFadden and Cody Grimm, the podcasting duo behind the Alpine Strangers.
“All My Rowdy Friends is sex appeal...dark with an edgy bite to it. Love painted stark. There’s a grit to the sex that makes it squirm. Poetry that includes visits to childhood, to mind-altering states and beyond, and a cast of characters that will slice your fingers if you press the page too hard.” –Jax Miller, best selling author of Freedom’s Child.
“Whitaker breaks the poetic fourth wall, that single-step remove from the text that situates the reader in a secure place as an (often passive) observer, and insists that the reader participate in that reimagining. Make no mistake, this is a collection that engages and sometimes repels at the same time. Brilliant, as the brightest light is brilliant, this is a light to which no one will be immune.” – Jamie Brown, Author of Sakura, 2013 Best Book of Verse, Delaware Press Association.
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