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February 17, 2019

Some Thoughts on Pope

February 16, 2019

Conservative Coffee Shop

February 15, 2019

Rain, Rain, Rain

February 14, 2019

Valentine’s Day Love Broken Heart

February 13, 2019

Cartwheels and Cloaks

February 12, 2019

A Most Unusual River

February 11, 2019

Some Recent Thoughts on Writing

February 10, 2019

Castor Canadensis (American Beaver) Man (Part 7)

February 9, 2019

Castor Canadensis (American Beaver) Man (Part 6)

February 8, 2019

Castor Canadensis (American Beaver) Man (Part 5)

February 7, 2019

Castor Canadensis (American Beaver) Man (Part 4)

February 6, 2019

Castor Canadensis (American Beaver) Man (Part 3)

February 5, 2019

Castor Canadensis (American Beaver) Man (Part 2)

February 4, 2019

Castor Canadensis (American Beaver) Man (Part 1)

February 2, 2019

Thoughts on an Early Morning Drive

February 1, 2019

Elk Drive-Thru

January 31, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Talkin’ Turkey

January 30, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Love to Love You Baby

January 29, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Busted Femur

January 28, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Wellness

January 25, 2019

Writing Workshop in Astoria

January 24, 2019

Fort Siren (idea for a noir story)

January 23, 2019

Mystery Over Journalism

January 22, 2019

Right On!

January 21, 2019

Rain Falls…

January 19, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Nowhere to Go

January 18, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Noon Moments

January 17, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Hallelujah

January 17, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Christmas Day

January 16, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Election Day

January 15, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Random Thoughts

January 14, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Failure

January 12, 2019

Final Notes from Life on Probation

January 11, 2019

Columbus and other Cannibals

January 10, 2019

A List of Recent Simple Joys

January 9, 2019

What Excites My Mind

January 8, 2019

A Fort Challenge

January 7, 2019

The Reconsideration of Rain

January 4, 2019

Dogs Raining (Reign) in My Mind (part 14)

January 3, 2019

Random Scenes

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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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