Nestucca Spit Press Meditations Blog
A Blog by Matt Love
  • Home
  • About
  • NSP Categories
    • NSP Meditations
    • Lost and Found
    • Writing
    • Driftwood Forts
    • Oregon Beaches
    • Of Walking in Rain
    • Oregon Coast_History
    • NSP Correspondents
    • Oregon Tavern Age
    • Astoria
    • Fiction
    • Poetry
  • Back to NSP
  • Contact
RSS
April 10, 2025

A Homeless Druid

April 7, 2025

Never Stop Pre at Pre’s Rock

March 31, 2025

On Reading Fame and Obscurity

March 27, 2025

Dad’s Final Gift

March 24, 2025

Rest in Peace Karl Love (Reflections on Alacrity)

March 20, 2025

Double Beavers!

March 17, 2025

Meditations While My Father is Dying

March 12, 2025

Sabers and Utopias

March 10, 2025

Operation 68: Letters from a Young Missionary in Brazil

March 5, 2025

Guitar Case

March 3, 2025

Kaiser ER

February 25, 2025

A Husky Checks Into…

February 24, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Return to the Triangle Tavern

February 19, 2025

The Starbucks Shakes

February 17, 2025

Snow, E.B. White and a Bloody Mary

February 11, 2025

Frosty Dawn at the Beach

February 7, 2025

Stocking Cap

February 5, 2025

Eating Powdered Donuts on a Bicycle

February 3, 2025

Nine Herons in a Row

January 29, 2025

Sauvie’s Island Sustenance

January 27, 2025

Miguel

January 22, 2025

Not Finishing Novels

January 20, 2025

The Quest for Gizzards

January 15, 2025

January Meditations

January 13, 2025

What I Carry Show about Homelessness in Portland

January 8, 2025

Scratch Off Winners

January 6, 2025

Onward to 2025

January 3, 2025

Jamie, Rallying

December 30, 2024

One Year With Elmer

December 20, 2024

Gift of the Oregon Homeless Magi (Part 3)

December 18, 2024

Gift of the Oregon Homeless Magi (Part 2)

December 16, 2024

Gift of the Oregon Homeless Magi (Part 1)

December 12, 2024

An Update to Sartre

December 9, 2024

The Gigging Life: Deviled Eggs!

December 4, 2024

Orange Contrails

December 2, 2024

The Pizza Box Manger: A Christmas Tale

November 27, 2024

Abandoned Belongings

November 25, 2024

Back to the Gigging Life!

November 20, 2024

82nd Avenue Hope

November 18, 2024

Recent Neighborhood Scenes of Homelessness

«‹ 5 6 7 8›»

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)

Recent Posts

  • Mark Leavenworth RIP
  • Roast Ruminations
  • Stand Em’in the Corner
  • Fasting Ruminations
  • Scenes from Two Weeks of Early Morning Homelessness in Empire

Categories

  • Astoria
  • Bonnie and Clyde Files
  • Coos Bay
  • Corona Virus Thoughts
  • Driftwood Forts
  • Fiction
  • Lost and Found
  • NSP Correspondents
  • NSP Meditations
  • Of Walking in Rain
  • Oregon Beaches
  • Oregon Coast_History
  • Oregon Tavern Age
  • Pioneer Pride
  • Poetry
  • secret coast radio
  • Sports
  • Writing

↑

© Nestucca Spit Press Meditations Blog 2026
Powered by WordPress • Themify WordPress Themes