NSP Blog Categories

Astoria

September 3, 2026

A Walk to Astoria High School on Aug. 26, 2014

September 2, 2026

Christmas Morning 2014

August 10, 2026

Astoria Column’s True Centennial Celebration

February 24, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Return to the Triangle Tavern

January 12, 2019

Final Notes from Life on Probation

November 10, 2018

Truth at the Tideline

1 2 3 4

Bonnie and Clyde Files

January 26, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 19)

January 24, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 18)

January 23, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 17)

January 22, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 16)

January 21, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 15)

October 16, 2019

A Few Copies Remain of the Bonnie & Clyde Files

Coos Bay

October 16, 2026

Scenes from Two Weeks of Early Morning Homelessness in Empire

October 6, 2026

Satan on Coos Bay

September 22, 2026

Corduroy Compliment

September 11, 2026

Frito Lay Delivery Driver

September 9, 2026

Fried Chicken at Dawn

September 6, 2026

Two Consecutive Mornings

Corona Virus Thoughts

October 11, 2023

Dad Contracts Covid

March 30, 2022

Final Corona Virus Thoughts

November 26, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts #26

September 7, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts #25

August 2, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts: The Olympic Games

May 25, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts #24

Driftwood Forts

July 8, 2026

My Life in Driftwood Forts

February 23, 2026

Return of the Fort Master

May 20, 2024

Our First Fort Together

November 22, 2023

Sunday Fort Building

June 21, 2023

Fort Building Metaphor Magic

May 24, 2021

Fort Tarot Reading

Fiction

January 9, 2026

Teacher of the Year Novella Released

December 24, 2025

Empire Christmas

December 16, 2025

Tom Petty Seaside Christmas Crabbing

November 10, 2025

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

December 20, 2024

Gift of the Oregon Homeless Magi (Part 3)

December 18, 2024

Gift of the Oregon Homeless Magi (Part 2)

Lost and Found

August 5, 2024

The Parable of the Lost Sheep and a Fentanyl Smoker

September 3, 2020

Excerpt from a Letter that I Hope Will Change the Course of My Life

July 20, 2017

Lost and Found 15 / Purpose

July 1, 2017

Lost and Found 14 B / Endings

June 29, 2017

Lost and Found 14 A / Endings

June 14, 2017

Lost and Found 13 / The Creative Mind

1 2 3

NSP Correspondents

July 31, 2026

I Want Kitty Back

May 8, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Captain’s Cabin

July 23, 2021

The Beer Chaser Blog

November 19, 2020

A Friend’s Meditations on Dementia

September 14, 2020

A Vortex I Story

May 26, 2020

Panning During the Pandemic

1 2 3 4

NSP Meditations

crow

November 6, 2026

Eulogy for Mark

markfort

November 5, 2026

Mark Leavenworth RIP

elmerroast

November 3, 2026

Roast Ruminations

October 26, 2026

Stand Em’in the Corner

October 19, 2026

Fasting Ruminations

October 16, 2026

Scenes from Two Weeks of Early Morning Homelessness in Empire

Of Walking in Rain

April 6, 2026

Some Lines On Rain

March 13, 2026

A Phalanx of Rain

March 27, 2024

Rainy Morning Homeless Meditations

October 25, 2023

Rainy Day Ruminations

June 3, 2022

Of Thinking of Rain

February 21, 2022

A Philosophy of Walking

Oregon Beaches

October 12, 2026

Sixes River Rapture

October 3, 2026

A Sashay at Dawn

August 26, 2026

Sunday Morning Service One and Two

July 8, 2026

My Life in Driftwood Forts

June 8, 2026

Three Days a Widower

February 23, 2026

Return of the Fort Master

Oregon Coast_History

August 30, 2026

Recipe For Gray

July 28, 2026

Cape Sebastian Psychedelia

April 16, 2025

My New Book Released: One Man’s Beach

September 30, 2024

Never Stop Pre: The Enduring Inspiration of America’s Greatest Sports Legend…by Matt Love (new book out!)

September 2, 2024

The Stone Oregon Era

August 14, 2024

Thoughts on Portland Punk Rock and Homelessness

Oregon Tavern Age

May 11, 2026

Oregon Tavern Age: Sunday Afternoon

March 23, 2026

Oregon Tavern Age: Hemorrhoid Treatment

February 4, 2026

Oregon Tavern Age: No Lube

January 19, 2026

Oregon Tavern Age: New Duds

December 15, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Pest Control

December 10, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Coos at Noon

Pioneer Pride

August 31, 2026

Speaking in Tongues

August 16, 2026

Ode to Walt Curtis!

August 16, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 2)

August 9, 2023

An Oregon City Legend

June 1, 2022

Recycling My Yearbooks

November 20, 2021

Football vs. Repentance

Poetry

October 26, 2026

Stand Em’in the Corner

October 3, 2026

A Sashay at Dawn

September 28, 2026

Maybe

September 15, 2026

Recent Waves of Poetry

September 13, 2026

Promise of a Song

September 12, 2026

Maintenance of Bad Company

secret coast radio

December 17, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #26

November 13, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #25

October 31, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #24

October 27, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #23

July 9, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #22

June 18, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #21

Sports

August 14, 2026

Ruminations on Golf

April 13, 2026

Ode to Arthur Ashe defeating Jimmy Connors in the 1975 Wimbledon Final

October 8, 2025

Prefontaine Memorial Fun Run

April 7, 2025

Never Stop Pre at Pre’s Rock

October 14, 2024

A JV Football Game

October 7, 2024

Another Excerpt from Never Stop Pre

Writing

October 5, 2026

On the Disappearance of Journals

September 15, 2026

Recent Waves of Poetry

September 1, 2026

My Short Oregon History with Richard Brautigan

August 27, 2026

Ode to Jim Harrison

May 4, 2026

Some Thoughts on My Poems About Homelessness

January 26, 2026

Ruminations on My Writing

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.