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January 2, 2019

A Slash Burn Christmas (Part 6)

January 1, 2019

A Slash Burn Christmas (Part 5)

December 31, 2018

A Slash Burn Christmas (Part 4)

December 29, 2018

Notes for a Story: Dead Man’s Mac and Cheese

December 28, 2018

A Slash Burn Christmas (Part 3)

December 27, 2018

Notes for an Upcoming Christmas Tale: Dead Man’s Western Wear

December 26, 2018

A Slash Burn Christmas (Part 2)

December 25, 2018

A Slash Burn Christmas (Part 1)

December 24, 2018

Caretaker of a Sacred Tree

December 21, 2018

Death by Driftwood

December 20, 2018

Holiday Craft Fair (Part 4) A Christmas Tale

December 19, 2018

Holiday Craft Fair (Part 3) A Christmas Tale

December 18, 2018

Holiday Craft Fair (Part 2) A Christmas Tale

December 17, 2018

Holiday Craft Fair (Part 1) A Christmas Tale

December 14, 2018

Beach Axiom

December 13, 2018

Fort Espresso

December 12, 2018

Slash Burn Rainbow

December 11, 2018

Thoreau Radio

December 10, 2018

Rain and a Nativity Scene

December 7, 2018

Jameson Writing Workshop

December 6, 2018

Elk Coffee Shop

December 4, 2018

Beaverwood Christmas Tree

December 4, 2018

Concrete Mama

December 3, 2018

Exclamation Point Anniversary!

November 30, 2018

Green…Then Not Green

November 29, 2018

But She Don’t Care

November 28, 2018

Church Fort

November 27, 2018

Trump at Low Tide

November 26, 2018

Dusty at Dawn

November 23, 2018

Earl’s Portable Coffee Shop

November 22, 2018

A New Thanksgiving Tradition

November 21, 2018

Rain, November, 21

November 20, 2018

A Novel in a Roadside Attraction

November 19, 2018

A Morning Stroll

November 18, 2018

On Football (Part 7)

November 17, 2018

On Football (Part 6)

November 16, 2018

On Football (Part 5)

November 15, 2018

On Football (Part 4)

November 14, 2018

On Football (Part 3)

November 13, 2018

On Football (Part 2)

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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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