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December 21, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Waiting to Craft

December 20, 2017

Elk and Christmas Cookies

December 19, 2017

Faces Coming Out Of the Rain

December 18, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 36

December 16, 2017

Lines Composed While Eating Breakfast at the Ocean

December 15, 2017

A Secret Place

December 14, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 35…Christmas Party!

December 13, 2017

How to Build a Driftwood Christmas Tree

December 12, 2017

Probation poem 12-4-17

December 11, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 34

December 9, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Relishing

December 8, 2017

Possible Christmas Tales

December 7, 2017

A Cryptic Note of Rain

December 6, 2017

Rolling into Port Orford

December 5, 2017

Letter to a Driftwood Fort Apprentice

December 4, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 33

December 2, 2017

Culvert: A Love Story…Part 1

December 1, 2017

Firewood Man

November 30, 2017

A Western Set in Western Oregon

November 29, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Solo Pool

November 28, 2017

Some Lines on Rain

November 27, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 32

November 24, 2017

The Legend of Drain Gravy Part 2

November 23, 2017

Remembrance of an Oregon Thanksgiving Football Past

November 23, 2017

Thanksgiving List

November 22, 2017

Random Rainy Thoughts

November 21, 2017

Probation Poem 11-13-17

November 20, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 31

November 18, 2017

Love is Movement

November 17, 2017

Things to Know About Coastal Oregon

November 16, 2017

Notes on a Novel

November 15, 2017

Life is Weather

November 14, 2017

Smiling: A Story

November 13, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 30

November 11, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Milo

November 10, 2017

A Disquisition on Student Bus Shelters

November 9, 2017

A Random Day

November 8, 2017

A Book of Poetry

November 7, 2017

Writing Along with Monk and Rollins

November 6, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 29

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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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