Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 11

August 24, 2022

A Short History of an Oregon Prom Night

August 19, 2022

Sometimes a Great Notion Writing Workshop in Astoria Oct. 8

July 29, 2022

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 3)

July 27, 2022

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 2)

July 25, 2022

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 1)

July 22, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Summer Musings

July 20, 2022

How to Become A Writer Who Writes About the Homeless Crisis

July 15, 2022

Thoughts on My Volunteer Service

July 13, 2022

On Considering the Homeless Crisis as a Disaster Event

July 11, 2022

The Bolshevik Beavers of Bybee Boulevard

July 7, 2022

Satan’s Halftime (A Story Idea)

July 1, 2022

Frank Beavers Endorsement from Tom McCall

June 27, 2022

Frank Beavers’ Haiku Campaign for Governor

June 25, 2022

A Brief Meditation on the End of Roe

June 24, 2022

Frank Beavers’ Campaign Ads Launched Against No Particular Candidate, Just All of Us

June 22, 2022

Frank Beavers’ Personal and Political Statement

June 20, 2022

Reading Studs Terkel for Answers

June 8, 2022

The Steve Prefontaine Heart Break

June 3, 2022

Ruminations on the Recent Primary Election

NEVER STOP PRE

The Enduring Inspiration of America's Greatest Sports Legend

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"Never stop Pre. When he's no longer relevant in Oregon, Oregon is dead."

On May 31, 1975, Coos Bay, Oregon native Steve Prefontaine died in an automobile accident. At the time of his death, he held 14 American records in distance running.

Pre was 24 years old and already a legend in Oregon and the world of track of field.

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The Old Crow

Book Club

In December of 2020, author Matt Love moved to Portland to care for his elderly father.

Returning to the Rose City jolted Love after 23 years residing on the Oregon Coast. In the Sellwood neighborhood where he lived, Love met a homeless man named Mark. They formed a friendship over literature and the unforeseen magical discoveries in street libraries. They created The Old Crow Book Club, and yes, sometimes that involved drinking Old Crow on a sidewalk.

The club also included several other Sellwood homeless men and women cut from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row cloth.

In due course, Love learned the members' stories of homelessness and how they survived. He wondered what happened to his beloved state of Oregon and attempted to help Mark get off the streets only to run up against the seemingly futile policies to address the crisis.

Along the way, he had the best conversations about books in his life and wrote The Old Crow Book Club, where he recounts his interactions with the homeless people in his neighborhood and offers some suggestions how to alleviate what he considers the greatest man-made American humanitarian disaster of his adult life.

The Old Crow Book Club is available for purchase here and select independent bookstores in Oregon.

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Choice Cuts

of Oregon Fiction

Choice Cuts of Oregon Fiction by Matt Love contains 20 stories, all set in Oregon. The cast of characters includes a depressed Santa Claus, Steve Prefontaine, Jack Ramsay's fast break offense, socialist squirrels, a clearcut, a dead deer, a junior high football team, a high school tennis player, a dissipated teacher, a man who evolves into a beaver, a homeless vet, a jilted preacher, a double date to a prom, rural degenerates, a wily caterer, and much more.

The publication of the collection culminates a quarter century of the author's writing about Oregon and rambling around the state.

Choice Cuts is available for purchase here, through Amazon, or select independent bookstores in Oregon.

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The Savage

of State Street

Nestucca Spit Press is proud to present The Savage of State Street: The Thieving and Literary Lives of Smoky Epley. He is the greatest unheralded writer in Oregon history and also one of its more mediocre, colorful and persistent thieves.

In 1973, Oregon State University Press published Men in Exile: An Anthology of Creative Writing by Inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary. Twenty-two of Smoky Epley's pieces appeared in the book.

Smoky spent most of his adult life in state and federal prisons for robbery. In 2008, during one of his brief stints of freedom, Smoky became friends with Matt Love, an Oregon author and publisher. They met after Love discovered Men in Exile and wrote a newspaper column about the landmark book. Smoky read the column and reached out.

He returned to prison in 2009 after forging a check. Upon his release in 2011, Love encouraged Smoky to write a memoir. He completed half of Auto before dying in February of 2013.

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Sonny the husky discovers a homeless encampment destroying a creek in a Portland city park. She alerts her owner and a park ranger and inspires a community clean-up of the damaged riparian area. Neighborhood citizens and residents of the encampment join Sonny to restore a tiny part of a watershed and later celebrate their collaboration.

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Metal Head

A Short History of an Oregon Prom Night

Oregon Tavern Age: Game Show

Rainbow Wraps (Part 5)

Rainbow Wraps (Part 4)

Rainbow Wraps (Part 3)

Rainbow Wraps (Part 2)

Rainbow Wraps (Part 1)

Harvey the Hardware Salesman

Some More Summer Musings

Sometimes a Great Notion Writing Workshop in Astoria Oct. 8

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 3)

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 2)

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 1)

Oregon Tavern Age: Summer Musings

July 2022 Scenes

How to Become A Writer Who Writes About the Homeless Crisis

Thoughts on My Volunteer Service

On Considering the Homeless Crisis as a Disaster Event

The Bolshevik Beavers of Bybee Boulevard

Watching Wimbledon

Satan’s Halftime (A Story Idea)

OLD-GROWTH MURDER

Frank Beavers Endorsement from Tom McCall

Frank Beavers’ Haiku Campaign for Governor

A Brief Meditation on the End of Roe

Frank Beavers’ Campaign Ads Launched Against No Particular Candidate, Just All of Us

Frank Beavers’ Personal and Political Statement

Frank Beavers for Governor!

Fishing Scenes

Perry Mason Book Idea

Reading Studs Terkel for Answers

An Afternoon Conversation

The Steve Prefontaine Heart Break

Of Thinking of Rain

Recycling My Yearbooks

One Oregon Day

Birthday Present

Coffee Shop Eavesdropping

Ruminations on the Recent Primary Election