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June 26, 2018

Ode to the Wonder Dog

June 25, 2018

Drizzle at the Sanctuary

June 23, 2018

Playing Ball with The Mick

June 22, 2018

A Drifting Mind in the Dunes

June 21, 2018

Youngs Bay Coffee Shop

June 20, 2018

Christian Coffee Shop Notes

June 19, 2018

On My Relationship with Bob Dylan

June 18, 2018

New Flavors to the Coffee Shop Novel

June 16, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Novels

June 15, 2018

Lines from the Beach

June 14, 2018

Death on the Road

June 13, 2018

Rain Falls…

June 12, 2018

Breakfast at the Burn Pile, A Hummingbird Flies Through Fire

June 11, 2018

Lines from 6-4 Probation—a Non Poem

June 9, 2018

Thoughts on Heckletooth 3

June 8, 2018

Eagle Antidepressant

June 7, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Bio Hazard

June 6, 2018

Love, Peace and Slot-Machine Coffee (Lost Oregon Writing)

June 5, 2018

Lines Written in the Fact_Fiction Workshop

June 4, 2018

Thoughts on the Blog

June 2, 2018

Writing Workshop Notes and Prompts

June 1, 2018

Fort Hope

May 31, 2018

Dog Conversation

May 30, 2018

Pie Breakfast at the Fort (For EU)

May 29, 2018

Reading Richard Brautigan in the Toyota Service Center

May 28, 2018

Notes for the Coffee Shop Novel

May 26, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Nickelback Thoughts

May 25, 2018

Sanctuary Back Yard Musings

May 24, 2018

The Jetty Man

May 23, 2018

Fort Stoners

May 22, 2018

Letter to Clyde

May 21, 2018

Eagle on the River

May 19, 2018

Notes From a River

May 18, 2018

The Struggle of Letting Go

May 17, 2018

Spirit Dogs

May 16, 2018

Probation 5-7-18

May 15, 2018

Distress Call

May 14, 2018

Stray Thoughts While Drinking Tea on the Back Deck

May 12, 2018

A Writer in Peril

May 11, 2018

Back Deck Cogitations

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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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