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Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 16)

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Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 14)

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A Ken Kesey Christmas (For Tim)

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Man Riding with Chainsaw

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Of Thinking In Rain

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Australia is the Size of Oregon

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Writing Workshop in Astoria March, 7

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Givin’ the New Year’s Finger in the Sand

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Taking Stock of 2019

December 30, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 10)

December 29, 2019

Considerations from Oregon City

December 26, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 9)

December 25, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 8)

December 24, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 7)

December 21, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 6)

December 20, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 5)

December 18, 2019

Last Day

December 17, 2019

Secret Coast Radio #12

December 16, 2019

Trump Table Christmas

December 14, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 4)

December 13, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 3)

December 12, 2019

Fort Sober

December 11, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 2)

December 10, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 1)

December 7, 2019

Random December 2019 Thoughts

December 5, 2019

Tire Center Christmas (Part 6)

December 4, 2019

Nestucca Spit Press 2 for 1 Holiday Sale!

December 3, 2019

Tire Center Christmas (Part 5)

December 1, 2019

Tire Center Christmas (Part 4)

November 29, 2019

Tire Center Christmas (Part 3)

November 28, 2019

Tire Center Christmas (Part 2)

November 27, 2019

Tire Center Christmas (Part 1)

November 24, 2019

Gettin’ OTA Out

November 22, 2019

On Charles Dickens’ Storage Unit

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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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