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March 15, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 11-Creative Writing

March 14, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 10-Rum Night

March 14, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 9-The Little Red Book

March 14, 2020

Nestucca Spit Press Writing Curriculum

March 11, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 8-Bus Ride

March 8, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 7-Calligraphy

March 6, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 6-The Legend of Don Harrison

March 6, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 5-Big Jim Ritacco

March 4, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 4-Football

March 1, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 3-Portland Trail Blazers

March 1, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 2-Hackey Sack

February 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 1-Mill Town

February 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Preface

February 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: An Oregon City Memoir..an Introduction

February 27, 2020

Rain Thoughts

February 26, 2020

Secret Radio Radio 15

February 25, 2020

River View Thoughts—Saturday

February 24, 2020

Note from a Rain Reader

February 21, 2020

Headlamp Kindness

February 20, 2020

Planting Trees

February 18, 2020

Vonnegut at Trump at the Bar

February 17, 2020

A Gift of Art

February 13, 2020

From the Dust

February 12, 2020

Meditations with a Porter

February 11, 2020

Bird House

February 10, 2020

On Reading in Libraries

February 8, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 6)

February 7, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 5)

February 6, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 4)

February 5, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 3)

February 4, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 2)

February 3, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 1)

February 2, 2020

The Far Out Story of Vortex I

January 31, 2020

Thoughts on a Story

January 29, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #14

January 28, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Pig Farmer

January 26, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 19)

January 24, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 18)

January 23, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 17)

January 22, 2020

Secret Coast Radio 13

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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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