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July 1, 2026

A Box of 7-11 Pizza

June 29, 2026

The Skylight

June 26, 2026

Fire Pit Meditations

June 25, 2026

My Kingdom for Some Rope!

June 22, 2026

A Territory Without Maps

June 15, 2026

The Bear Hunter

June 13, 2026

To Report or Not

June 8, 2026

Three Days a Widower

June 5, 2026

The Profane Pastor

June 1, 2026

The Green Purse (Part 2)

May 29, 2026

The Poet

May 25, 2026

The Green Purse

May 18, 2026

Yard Work

May 11, 2026

Oregon Tavern Age: Sunday Afternoon

May 4, 2026

Some Thoughts on My Poems About Homelessness

May 1, 2026

Juxtaposition of Empires

April 27, 2026

Dead Jellyfish

April 24, 2026

When the Rainstorm Hits

April 22, 2026

More Roses in the World

April 21, 2026

Gregg Allman

April 20, 2026

Reflections on My First Year in Coos Bay

April 17, 2026

The Rookery

April 14, 2026

Statue of Liberty

April 13, 2026

Ode to Arthur Ashe defeating Jimmy Connors in the 1975 Wimbledon Final

April 6, 2026

Some Lines On Rain

March 30, 2026

The Apple

March 26, 2026

Distress Signal

March 23, 2026

Oregon Tavern Age: Hemorrhoid Treatment

March 18, 2026

Woodsmoke and Wine

March 16, 2026

Reflections on Dad’s Death

March 13, 2026

A Phalanx of Rain

March 11, 2026

Crater Lake Eyes

March 10, 2026

On Turning 62

March 9, 2026

Poetry on the Mind

March 4, 2026

Wood Cut

March 2, 2026

Sand Dollars

February 26, 2026

Dream On

February 23, 2026

Return of the Fort Master

February 16, 2026

The Lucky Star

February 12, 2026

Hope is Kindled

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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
Amazon's Kindle Edition $6.99

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.

Amazon's Kindle Edition $7.99 (Free if you have Kindle Unlimited)

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