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November 26, 2023

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November 22, 2023

Sunday Fort Building

November 20, 2023

Tribute to Bruce, Cindy, Ron and the Nesika Beach RV Park

November 18, 2023

Candy Corn Homeless Man

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Oregon Tavern Age: First Aid

November 14, 2023

Some Thoughts on Philosophy

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The Stethoscope Man

November 8, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: Carrot Curry Soup

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Guinness Meditations

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Jamie Needs a Flute!

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Elizabeth

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The Joy of Reedsport

October 18, 2023

Darrel

October 16, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: Jack Off

October 11, 2023

Dad Contracts Covid

October 9, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: The Great Escape

October 4, 2023

Prefontaine Memorial Run

October 2, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: The Narrows

September 27, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: Lorna

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Oregon Tavern Age: FDR

September 20, 2023

Almost Gus

September 18, 2023

Poverty, By America

September 13, 2023

Perry

September 11, 2023

The Death of Little League

September 6, 2023

I Have a Story to Tell

September 4, 2023

Joy Writing Workshop in Astoria October 14

September 1, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 7)

August 30, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 6) Rest in Peace Walt Curtis

August 28, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 5)

August 23, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 4)

August 21, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 3)

August 16, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 2)

August 14, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 1)

August 9, 2023

An Oregon City Legend

August 7, 2023

Donnie, Gigger Extraordinaire

August 2, 2023

Typewriters

July 31, 2023

Vodka Soda Meditations

July 26, 2023

Cassie the Bartender

July 24, 2023

Hershey’s Bar

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Teacher of the Year: A Novella

By Matt Love

A reluctant teacher becomes advisor to a moribund high school newspaper. He meets the new editor, a dynamic 18-year-old senior, and together they begin a unique creative collaboration that revives the publication and slowly slides into gray areas. As the poet Octavio Paz wrote, “To realize itself, love must violate the rules of our world...committed by two stars that break out of the conception of love, which implies breaking away and a catastrophe..."

Teacher of the Year
Amazon's Kindle Edition $6.99

Teacher of the Year unfolds in an energetic mixture of epistle, stream-of-consciousness, narrative and meditations on the craft and alchemy of teaching. There is no other more authentic literary exploration into the agonies and ecstasies of teaching in the annals of American literature than this novella.


A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems

By Matt Love

In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in the history of Pacific Northwest literature, Matt Love presents 148 poems written over a 30-year span.

As he writes in the introduction to A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems, “I have organized this collection into six categories: Ocean, Love, My Life, Oregon Tavern Age, Homelessness, Probation. These poems serve as a substantial but incomplete autobiography.”

“Confessionals, odes, scatological doggerel, polemics, tankas, haiku, prose, psalms, requiems, observations, love letters, lamentations, lyrics, stream of consciousness, meditations, lists, riffs, a eulogy, a sermon, a commencement speech, found poetry, tributes, elegies. I threw it all into an ancient cement mixer and hand cranked that concrete beast while watching blue herons undulate overhead and drinking red wine as the husky snoozed in his dirt fort. The result: A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems, something merging where Charles Bukowski, Richard Hugo, Mary Oliver and Liz Phair blend together.”

None of Love's poems were ever submitted to poetry journals, contests or magazines, making this collection a true renegade project of passion and readable to any denizen of a coastal dive bar.

Amazon's Kindle Edition $7.99 (Free if you have Kindle Unlimited)

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