NSP Blog Categories

Astoria

November 7, 2018

Youngs Bay Barbershop

September 10, 2018

Meditations on a Dump Run (Part 1)

July 9, 2018

Bald Eagle Traffic Jam

June 21, 2018

Youngs Bay Coffee Shop

February 13, 2018

February Musings Overlooking Youngs’ Bay

February 10, 2018

Thank You Godfather’s Books

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Bonnie and Clyde Files

June 12, 2019

The Bonnie and Clyde Files…another excerpt

May 21, 2019

Letter From a Bonnie and Clyde Reader

May 6, 2019

Reunion with Bonnie

May 3, 2019

Book Number 22: The Bonnie and Clyde Files

May 2, 2019

Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (4)

May 1, 2019

Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (3)

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Coos Bay

August 23, 2026

Fourth of July 2026 in Empire

August 13, 2026

Empire Chaos

August 9, 2026

Her Sound

July 15, 2026

Red Rock Crab

July 1, 2026

A Box of 7-11 Pizza

June 26, 2026

Fire Pit Meditations

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Corona Virus Thoughts

April 14, 2021

Second Vaccine Shot

March 25, 2021

First Vaccine Shot

March 17, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts # 23

February 23, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts #22

February 1, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts #21

December 18, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #20

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Driftwood Forts

April 1, 2021

A Last Pistol River Fort

January 31, 2021

The Permanent Impermanence of Driftwood Forts

November 18, 2020

The Imminent Disappearance of a Fort

November 12, 2020

Pick Up Your Trash 2

November 9, 2020

Pick Up Your Trash

August 30, 2020

A Stroll Through My Forts

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Fiction

December 16, 2024

Gift of the Oregon Homeless Magi (Part 1)

December 2, 2024

The Pizza Box Manger: A Christmas Tale

January 31, 2024

The Severed Head

December 18, 2023

Christmas Rakes for the Homeless

March 3, 2023

Scenes of Steve Prefontaine (Scene 6)

March 1, 2023

Scenes of Steve Prefontaine (Scene 5)

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Lost and Found

June 9, 2017

Lost and Found 12 / Lists

May 30, 2017

Lost and Found 11 / One Year In

May 9, 2017

Lost and Found 10 / Faces

May 6, 2017

Lost and Found 9 / Self Hospice Care

May 5, 2017

Lost and Found 8 / Jobs

April 20, 2017

Lost and Found 7 / Losing Friends, Finding Friends

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NSP Correspondents

February 13, 2020

From the Dust

July 22, 2019

Deep into the Destroyer’s Domain

June 27, 2019

Androsov’s Fort

January 2, 2019

A Slash Burn Christmas (Part 6)

January 1, 2019

A Slash Burn Christmas (Part 5)

October 23, 2018

On Finding James Baldwin

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NSP Meditations

October 12, 2026

Sixes River Rapture

October 6, 2026

Satan on Coos Bay

October 5, 2026

On the Disappearance of Journals

October 3, 2026

A Sashay at Dawn

September 28, 2026

Maybe

September 22, 2026

Corduroy Compliment

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Of Walking in Rain

September 13, 2021

Of Not Walking in Rain

March 5, 2021

The Sound of Rain

January 4, 2021

Sellwood Walk 1-2-21

January 1, 2021

Walking in Rain with Big Changes on My Mind

December 21, 2020

Of Walking in Winter Rain

May 13, 2020

Some Miscellaneous Thoughts in Rain

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Oregon Beaches

January 7, 2026

John Dellenback Trail

December 1, 2025

A Crow Rips Apart a Wounded Sandpiper

October 13, 2025

Contemplations of a Dog

August 22, 2025

Full Charleston Moon

June 30, 2025

Meditations on a Dying Sea Lion

May 16, 2025

Hairy Triton Morning

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Oregon Coast_History

June 10, 2024

Rest in Peace Earl Mohr

May 29, 2024

Bill Walton and the Secret Weapon to the Portland Trail Blazers Winning the NBA title in 1977

October 23, 2023

The Joy of Reedsport

August 30, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 6) Rest in Peace Walt Curtis

August 16, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 2)

August 14, 2023

Oregon On My Mind (Part 1)

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Oregon Tavern Age

November 12, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: A Poem

November 6, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Daytime Halloween

October 27, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Turds

September 22, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Crabs

September 8, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Miscellaneous

September 1, 2025

Oregon Tavern Age: Fog

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Pioneer Pride

April 7, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 25-The End

April 7, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Chapter 24—A Sophomore Date

April 5, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 23-Kissers III

April 3, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 22-Kissers II

April 2, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 21-Kissers I

March 30, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 20-The Rivalry

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Poetry

September 11, 2026

Frito Lay Delivery Driver

September 10, 2026

Strawberry Beret Tanka

September 9, 2026

Fried Chicken at Dawn

September 8, 2026

Epistle to J

September 7, 2026

Track List for Unreleased Country Triple Album

September 6, 2026

Two Consecutive Mornings

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secret coast radio

June 1, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #20

April 22, 2020

Secret Coast Radio 19

April 12, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #18

April 4, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #17

March 31, 2020

Secret Coast Radio 16

February 26, 2020

Secret Radio Radio 15

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Sports

October 2, 2024

Excerpt from Never Stop Pre

September 30, 2024

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

September 4, 2024

Some Thoughts on Football

July 1, 2024

A Socialist Nine Holes of Golf

May 29, 2024

Bill Walton and the Secret Weapon to the Portland Trail Blazers Winning the NBA title in 1977

January 24, 2024

Some Thoughts on Football

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Writing

January 9, 2026

Teacher of the Year Novella Released

November 10, 2025

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

August 13, 2025

A Creative Crisis and Thoughts on Hope

April 7, 2025

Never Stop Pre at Pre’s Rock

March 12, 2025

Sabers and Utopias

March 10, 2025

Operation 68: Letters from a Young Missionary in Brazil

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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.