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July 23, 2020

A Brief Bumble Bee Story

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Recent Sights Along Highway 101

July 21, 2020

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July 20, 2020

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July 16, 2020

Chipmunk Sex Fever!

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Lines that Arrested Me from Camus’ Notebooks (1942-1951)

July 13, 2020

Elbow Patches!

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Corona Virus Thoughts #9

July 9, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #22

July 8, 2020

Some Suggested New Names for RVs in Contemporary America

July 4, 2020

Fourth of July Frivolous Word Frenzy

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Fourth of July Corona Virus Thoughts

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Oregon Tavern Age: A Summer Afternoon

July 1, 2020

Trump 2020 at the Beach

June 30, 2020

Igniting New Writing via Richard Hugo Workshop in Astoria Sept 19

June 29, 2020

The Great Debasing of Americans (by Americans)

June 26, 2020

A Gift of Beaverwood Art

June 24, 2020

Lake Meditations

June 22, 2020

Dangerous Writing

June 19, 2020

A Tribute To Alfie the Dog

June 18, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #21

June 17, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Trick or Pimp?

June 16, 2020

Some Dog Thoughts

June 15, 2020

Bozo the Dog

June 14, 2020

His First Tip

June 11, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Shots, Shots, Shots

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New Nestucca Spit Press Projects

June 9, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts 8

June 8, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: THE MOTHER OF ALL PUDDINGS

June 5, 2020

Camp Fire Thoughts

June 3, 2020

If I Hear…

June 1, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #20

May 31, 2020

A Modest Proposal in the Spirit of Tom McCall to Reopen Coastal State Parks

May 28, 2020

Class

May 27, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #7

May 26, 2020

Panning During the Pandemic

May 25, 2020

He Cared

May 21, 2020

Reopening OTA Country in Reedsport

May 20, 2020

The Drummer

May 19, 2020

Tail Gate Makeout Session

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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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