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February 16, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Love Letter in a Chinese Lounge

February 13, 2022

Super Sunday in Newport

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The Fantasy of Van Life

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Rereading East of Eden

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Coffee Shop Ruminations

February 4, 2022

RIP Bud Clark

February 2, 2022

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January 31, 2022

Ted Williams and Dad

January 26, 2022

Seven Bald Eagles

January 24, 2022

Reading

January 19, 2022

The Case of the Savage Spam

January 17, 2022

Meditations in a Nail Shop

January 14, 2022

A Poem Takes on New Meaning

January 12, 2022

Obituaries of the Eugene Homeless

January 10, 2022

The End of My Letters

January 6, 2022

Restoring a Human Watercourse

January 5, 2022

A Choice Cut on New Year’s Day

January 3, 2022

Red Squirrel in the Snow

December 29, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Smith River Tavern

December 27, 2021

Nifty Thrifty

December 24, 2021

Nog Walk

December 22, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 9)

December 20, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 8)

December 19, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 7)

December 17, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 6)

December 15, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 5)

December 13, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 4)

December 12, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 3)

December 9, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 2)

December 8, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 1)

December 6, 2021

On the Idea of Social Reform Novel about the Homeless

December 2, 2021

Christmas Rakes (Part 4)

December 1, 2021

Christmas Rakes (Part 3)

November 30, 2021

Christmas Rakes (Part 2)

November 29, 2021

Christmas Rakes (Part 1)

November 28, 2021

Cape Disappointment by Chris Larson

November 26, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts #26

November 24, 2021

The Inspiration of Henry Kaiser and Vanport

November 22, 2021

On Buying A Recliner

November 20, 2021

Football vs. Repentance

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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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