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November 10, 2020

Trash as Tea Leaves

November 9, 2020

Pick Up Your Trash

November 6, 2020

Reflections on a Print Shop

November 5, 2020

Museum of Old Names

November 4, 2020

Pro Wrestling in Vernonia!

November 3, 2020

Corona Virus Election Thoughts

November 2, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Jaguar

October 31, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #24

October 30, 2020

Working for the Weekend

October 29, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Hunter Biden

October 28, 2020

Hope is Kindled (The Kids Might Be Alright)

October 27, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #23

October 26, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #18

October 23, 2020

Resurrection of a Corduroy Coat

October 22, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 8)

October 21, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 7)

October 20, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 6)

October 19, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 5)

October 15, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 4)

October 14, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 3)

October 13, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 2)

October 12, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 1)

October 9, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #17

October 8, 2020

Rusticate

October 7, 2020

Roy Marx, Socialist Detective by Lark Jameson

October 6, 2020

Bill

October 5, 2020

Ode to a CD Jukebox

October 2, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #16

October 1, 2020

Kelp Consciousness

September 30, 2020

Semi Naked Novelist?

September 29, 2020

An Essay on America (Part 2)

September 28, 2020

An Essay on America (Part 1)

September 25, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #15

September 24, 2020

Writing from the Triggering Town Workshop

September 23, 2020

Goodbye Old Corduroy Friend (Part 1)

September 21, 2020

A Triggering Town Group

September 18, 2020

Gin Drizzle

September 17, 2020

Richard Hugo Lines

September 16, 2020

Typewriter Rescue

September 15, 2020

Waiting for Fogot

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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
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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.

A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems

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