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August 9, 2018

Return of the Fort Stoners

August 8, 2018

Tagging the Fort

August 6, 2018

Musings from the Jetty

August 6, 2018

Dogs Raining (Reigning) in My Mind Part 13

August 4, 2018

Yet Another Bullet-hole Chair

August 3, 2018

Reading Trotsky’s Diary

August 2, 2018

Dog Sanctuary Ruminations

August 1, 2018

Forts and the Beauty of Beaverwood

July 31, 2018

Notes for the Non-corporate Coffee Novel

July 30, 2018

Additional Notes for the Coffee Shop Novel

July 28, 2018

The Fort Essay

July 27, 2018

A Dream of a Secret Beach

July 26, 2018

Secret Estuary

July 25, 2018

Gold at Dawn

July 24, 2018

Another Idea for RV Short Story

July 23, 2018

Idea for RV Short Story

July 22, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Sawmill

July 22, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Derriere

July 21, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Deer

July 20, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: The Hallmark Couple

July 19, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Singing

July 18, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Moments

July 17, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Diplomacy

July 16, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Wimbledon

July 14, 2018

Styrofoam Coffee Novel Notes

July 13, 2018

Checking Out

July 11, 2018

River Possibilities

July 9, 2018

Bald Eagle Traffic Jam

July 9, 2018

Dear Deer

July 9, 2018

Fort 4th of July

July 7, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 5)

July 6, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 4)

July 5, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 3)

July 4, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 2)

July 3, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 1)

July 2, 2018

Excerpt from an unpublished novel, Teacher of the Year

June 30, 2018

Salmonberry Man

June 29, 2018

Withholding Judgment

June 28, 2018

A Christening

June 27, 2018

A Pile of Broken Wood and Americans Gone to Seed

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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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