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May 15, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Back in the Saddle!

May 14, 2020

OTA Country Lives Again!

May 13, 2020

Some Miscellaneous Thoughts in Rain

May 12, 2020

A Theft by a Beaver

May 11, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #6

May 7, 2020

Malibu Run and Bombay Gin: A Case in Deduction

May 6, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #5

May 5, 2020

Questions of Truth

May 4, 2020

Mix Tape Memory

May 2, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #4

April 30, 2020

Roasting Cans and Bottles

April 28, 2020

Osprey Versus Clearcut

April 26, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #3

April 23, 2020

A Weird Chainsaw Story

April 22, 2020

Secret Coast Radio 19

April 20, 2020

Crab Louie!

April 19, 2020

Fishermen

April 17, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #2

April 16, 2020

Fortitude

April 14, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts

April 13, 2020

Oregon Grape Revelation

April 12, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #18

April 10, 2020

Saving Private Salamander

April 7, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 25-The End

April 7, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Chapter 24—A Sophomore Date

April 5, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 23-Kissers III

April 4, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #17

April 3, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 22-Kissers II

April 2, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 21-Kissers I

March 31, 2020

Secret Coast Radio 16

March 30, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 20-The Rivalry

March 28, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 19-Tennis Team II

March 27, 2020

Use Your Purchasing Power!

March 25, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 18-Tennis Team I

March 22, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 17-Scenes

March 22, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 16-Senior Skip Day

March 18, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 15-Dump Run

March 18, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 14-Journalism

March 16, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 13-The Promenade

March 16, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 12-Coin Flip

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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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