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September 22, 2017

Pelicans at the Jetty

September 21, 2017

Rainy Meditations

September 20, 2017

A Trade for Fish

September 19, 2017

Sonny’s Face, My Face

September 18, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 22

September 15, 2017

100,000 Reads and Support for the Blog

September 14, 2017

Twenty Years Ago: Reflections on Bookshelf

September 13, 2017

All Loose Things and Thoughts on Perforated Paper

September 12, 2017

Level

September 11, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 21

September 9, 2017

Fort Chivalry Part 2

September 8, 2017

Fort Chivalry Part 1

September 7, 2017

Bumblebees and Butterflies

September 6, 2017

Foggy Revelations at the Fort

September 5, 2017

Roofing!

September 4, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 20

September 2, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Friar Part 2

September 1, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Friar Part 1

August 31, 2017

Fort Crab

August 30, 2017

Notes on Listing, Walking the Plank and Gaffs

August 29, 2017

Another Poem from the Probation Office

August 28, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 19

August 26, 2017

Husky on the Detroit Dam

August 25, 2017

Ruminations on V-Neck Sweaters

August 24, 2017

A Trailer in Mind

August 23, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Eclipse Part 2

August 22, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Eclipse Part 1

August 21, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 18

August 19, 2017

Meditations Overlooking Youngs Bay 2

August 18, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 17

August 17, 2017

Meditations Overlooking Youngs Bay

August 16, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Pitch’s East

August 15, 2017

Live Tide, Dead Tide

August 14, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 16

August 12, 2017

Things I’ve Written Recently

August 11, 2017

A Discourse on Martin Eden

August 10, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: A Strawberry Mind

August 9, 2017

Questions from the South Jetty

August 8, 2017

The Legend of Drain Gravy Part 1

August 7, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 15

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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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