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June 26, 2019

Psychedelic Chipmunk 2

June 25, 2019

Psychedelic Chipmunk!

June 24, 2019

Conspiracy Coffee Shop

June 19, 2019

Senior Pot Discount

June 18, 2019

On the Contrasts Between My Construction Job and Teaching

June 17, 2019

101 Coffee Shop (Another Morning)

June 13, 2019

5:42 AM Fort

June 12, 2019

The Bonnie and Clyde Files…another excerpt

June 11, 2019

Lessons Learned When You Publish Your Book (revised)

June 10, 2019

Nestucca Spit Press Releases Two New Books!

June 7, 2019

The Fort Destroyer Continued…

June 5, 2019

Lost in the Grass

June 4, 2019

On Shims

June 3, 2019

Fort Destroyer Response 2

May 30, 2019

101 Coffee Shop

May 29, 2019

Some Thoughts

May 28, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: A Secret Joint

May 27, 2019

Beaver Cards!

May 23, 2019

In Praise of Barter

May 22, 2019

A New Job

May 21, 2019

Letter From a Bonnie and Clyde Reader

May 20, 2019

Response to Fort Protest

May 15, 2019

The Portal

May 14, 2019

Truck Stop Diner Coffee

May 13, 2019

Baby Stroller Driftwood

May 9, 2019

Beautiful Incongruities

May 8, 2019

Morning Finds

May 7, 2019

Recent Sights

May 6, 2019

Reunion with Bonnie

May 3, 2019

Book Number 22: The Bonnie and Clyde Files

May 2, 2019

Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (4)

May 1, 2019

Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (3)

April 30, 2019

Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (2)

April 29, 2019

The Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (1)

April 26, 2019

Dead Beavers

April 25, 2019

Thoughts at the Jetty

April 24, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: An Eagle Story

April 23, 2019

Gratitude at the Jetty

April 22, 2019

Rain Coffee Shop

April 17, 2019

The Rock Legend of Don Harrison (Part 3)

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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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