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August 26, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Swallows

August 26, 2019

Citadel Fort

August 22, 2019

On RV Names

August 21, 2019

Construction Job Notes

August 20, 2019

Bare Midriff Versus the Beer Gut

August 19, 2019

Secret Coast Radio #7

August 16, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Toots and Goats

August 13, 2019

My Friends the Gulls

August 12, 2019

A Camper

August 9, 2019

Nestucca Spit Press Seeks Intern

August 8, 2019

RV Honey

August 6, 2019

Psychedelic Chipmunk 4

August 6, 2019

On Meeting David Shetzline and Discussing Heckletooth 3

August 5, 2019

Death of a Homeless Man

August 1, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 6

August 1, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 5

July 31, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 4

July 30, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 3

July 30, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 2

July 29, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 1

July 24, 2019

On Tetherball

July 23, 2019

The Greatest Gig in Oregon History

July 22, 2019

Secret Coast Rock Festival

July 22, 2019

Deep into the Destroyer’s Domain

July 18, 2019

Ricky and Cha Cha 2

July 15, 2019

On Rereading The Grapes of Wrath and the New American Diaspora

July 15, 2019

Psychedelic Chipmunk 3

July 15, 2019

A Mystery Fort

July 11, 2019

Sunday Forts!

July 10, 2019

Elk for Lunch

July 9, 2019

Psychedelic Chipmunk 2

July 8, 2019

Oregon City Coffee Shop

July 6, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Acid

July 5, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Wedding

July 4, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: An Attempt

July 2, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Hairstyle

July 2, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Editor

July 1, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Drain

June 27, 2019

Androsov’s Fort

June 26, 2019

Zen Fueled Writing Workshop In Astoria (Sept 14)

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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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