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February 4, 2026

Oregon Tavern Age: No Lube

February 2, 2026

Two Crows in Love

January 26, 2026

Ruminations on My Writing

January 19, 2026

Oregon Tavern Age: New Duds

January 17, 2026

Morgan from New Zealand

January 12, 2026

Empire Meditations

January 9, 2026

Teacher of the Year Novella Released

January 7, 2026

John Dellenback Trail

January 5, 2026

Herschel and the Impressionist Sunrise

December 31, 2025

Christmastime Ruminations

December 29, 2025

Coos Bay Memorial and Celebration

December 24, 2025

Empire Christmas

December 16, 2025

Tom Petty Seaside Christmas Crabbing

December 15, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Pest Control

December 12, 2025

Probate Meditations

December 10, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Coos at Noon

December 8, 2025

Empire Christmas Tree Lighting

December 5, 2025

Early Christmas Present: Mark Gets an Apartment!

December 4, 2025

Homeless Christmas Tree No More

December 1, 2025

A Crow Rips Apart a Wounded Sandpiper

November 29, 2025

Burn Barrel Thanksgiving Breakfast

November 26, 2025

Husky Magic

November 25, 2025

The Firewood Arrangement

November 20, 2025

Crimson and Clover

November 17, 2025

Rainbow at Sunrise for Dad’s Birthday

November 12, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: A Poem

November 10, 2025

New Book Released! Gift of the Oregon Magi & Other Christmas Tales of Homelessness

November 6, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Daytime Halloween

November 3, 2025

“The Free Walking Chili Pie Dinner”

October 31, 2025

Empire Homeless Halloween

October 27, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Turds

October 20, 2025

A Favor for Elmer

October 16, 2025

Recent Scenes of Homelessness Around Coos Bay

October 13, 2025

Contemplations of a Dog

October 8, 2025

Prefontaine Memorial Fun Run

October 6, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Ryder Cup

October 1, 2025

First Day of School

September 29, 2025

The Fishmonger’s Ensemble

September 22, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Crabs

September 18, 2025

Back into the Breach

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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
Amazon's Kindle Edition $6.99

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.

Amazon's Kindle Edition $7.99 (Free if you have Kindle Unlimited)

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