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November 4, 2017

Topless to the Clearcut

November 3, 2017

River Currents

November 2, 2017

Light Bulbs

November 1, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 28

October 31, 2017

My Near Beheading on Halloween Part 2

October 30, 2017

My Near Beheading on Halloween Part 1

October 29, 2017

A Good Kick in the Ass

October 28, 2017

Matt Kramer Memorial Memories and Almost Instagram

October 27, 2017

Probation Poem 10-17-17….Kissing

October 26, 2017

Another Short Story from the City

October 25, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 27

October 24, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: The Couple

October 23, 2017

Somewhere Under the Rainbow

October 21, 2017

Rain For Breakfast

October 20, 2017

Cedar Fiends

October 19, 2017

Crime/Detective Fiction Writing Workshop Part 2

October 19, 2017

Meth Agates

October 18, 2017

Squirrel on the Jetty and Thoughts on My Journals

October 17, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 26

October 16, 2017

The Joyful Mind

October 14, 2017

Another Probation Poem

October 13, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Friday Noon Champagne

October 12, 2017

Stalin on the Columbia

October 11, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 25

October 10, 2017

Pistol River Beach Dreaming

October 9, 2017

Notes from a Notepad

October 7, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Calling Dr. Bombay

October 6, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 24

October 5, 2017

Cliffs of Love

October 4, 2017

Thoughts on Tom Petty

October 2, 2017

Vortex I Light Man and River

October 2, 2017

On Birds

October 1, 2017

Thoughts on Recent Conversations

September 30, 2017

In Praise of the AlphaSmart

September 29, 2017

Ruminations from the Back Yard

September 28, 2017

Probation Poem 9-25-17

September 27, 2017

A Short Story About the City

September 26, 2017

Beach Rutting

September 25, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 23

September 23, 2017

Polishing and Professionalizing Your Writing: A Workshop

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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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