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April 16, 2019

The Rock Legend of Don Harrison (Part 2)

April 15, 2019

The Rock Legend of Don Harrison (Part 1)

April 12, 2019

Notes for a Rain Novel

April 10, 2019

Fort Protest

April 9, 2019

Get Off My Cloud (An Epic Poem / Part 1)

April 8, 2019

Cliffs of Meth (?)

April 4, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Pickle Juice

April 3, 2019

Of Thinking in Rain

April 2, 2019

On Beaverwood

April 1, 2019

Laundry Room Thoughts

March 28, 2019

Three Quotes

March 28, 2019

The Meth Miscreants

March 27, 2019

Gus!

March 26, 2019

On Seal Rock

March 25, 2019

Quiet Coffee Shop

March 22, 2019

Elk and a Meatloaf Sandwich

March 21, 2019

Fort Sunset

March 20, 2019

Made in Oregon Catwoman Lust (Part 3)

March 19, 2019

Made in Oregon Catwoman Lust (Part 2)

March 18, 2019

Made in Oregon Catwoman Lust (Part 1)

March 15, 2019

Coffee Shop Ruminations

March 14, 2019

Fort Ukulele

March 13, 2019

Birthday Fort

March 12, 2019

Corporate Coffee Shop Meth Novel Notes

March 11, 2019

Thoughts While Driving in Rain (again)

March 8, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Silver Dollar Kindness

March 7, 2019

Ricky and Cha Cha

March 6, 2019

Waves Shaped Like Nabokov’s Motels

March 5, 2019

Random March Thoughts

March 4, 2019

Sunday Morning Meth

March 1, 2019

My Life in Mix Tapes: A Musical and Political Memoir in Titles (Part 3)

February 28, 2019

My Life in Mix Tapes: A Musical and Political Memoir in Titles (Part 2)

February 27, 2019

My Life in Mix Tapes: A Musical and Political Memoir in Titles (Part 1)

February 26, 2019

When the Weird Turn Pro

February 25, 2019

Driving In Sunday Rain

February 22, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Scenes

February 21, 2019

Dead Man’s Razor

February 20, 2019

A Peregrine Shits!

February 19, 2019

A Secret Cove

February 18, 2019

On a Lost Literary Genre

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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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