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November 12, 2018

On Football (Part 1)

November 10, 2018

Truth at the Tideline

November 9, 2018

Corporate Coffee Musings

November 8, 2018

Dear Seal Friend:

November 7, 2018

Youngs Bay Barbershop

November 6, 2018

Yard Work

November 5, 2018

A Great Dog Notion

November 3, 2018

The Mushroom Hounds

November 2, 2018

On Becoming a Visual Artist

November 1, 2018

At the River

October 31, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Stalling

October 30, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Sex Stop

October 29, 2018

Rain Hammers the Roof

October 29, 2018

Falling Leaves

October 26, 2018

Rain Coffee Shop Notes

October 25, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Jello Shots

October 24, 2018

Patio Thoughts

October 23, 2018

On Finding James Baldwin

October 22, 2018

Dear Friend of the Meditations Blog:

October 19, 2018

Still Teaching

October 18, 2018

Cordelia Crow

October 17, 2018

More Notes for the Coffee Shop Novel

October 16, 2018

Some Truths

October 15, 2018

Two Homeless Men

October 13, 2018

Morning Walk

October 12, 2018

More Notes for the Christian Coffee Shop Novel

October 11, 2018

My Friends the Gulls

October 10, 2018

Mercy (Part 2)

October 9, 2018

Mercy (Part 1)

October 8, 2018

Rain Things

October 6, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: The Hearing

October 5, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Screwdriver Western

October 4, 2018

Thoughts on Seething

October 3, 2018

Idea for a Novel, Possibly Erotic

October 2, 2018

A Window Washing Tale (Part 2)

October 1, 2018

A Window Washing Tale (Part 1)

September 29, 2018

The Clearcut (Part 3)

September 28, 2018

The Clearcut (Part 2)

September 27, 2018

The Clearcut (Part 1)

September 26, 2018

Contrails

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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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