Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 12 – A Blog by Matt Love

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April 15, 2022

On Instant Judgment

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April 13, 2022

The 90s

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April 11, 2022

Cosmic Forces?

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April 8, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: MIA

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April 6, 2022

A Dandelion

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April 4, 2022

Denis Johnson and a Writing Methodology for the Homeless Crisis

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April 1, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Roz is Gone

March 30, 2022

Final Corona Virus Thoughts

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March 28, 2022

The Case of the Sinister Slice

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March 25, 2022

Killing Time

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March 24, 2022

May 7 Writing Workshop in Portland: “Firing Up Your Writing Project”

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March 23, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Revenge of the Watershed

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March 21, 2022

Rewatching All the President’s Men

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March 17, 2022

Sweet Socialism Birthday

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March 16, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Birthday

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March 14, 2022

Twenty Years of Nestucca Spit Press

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March 13, 2022

Sartre on My Writing Mind

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March 11, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Blow Job (the drink)

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March 9, 2022

Walking in Snow

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March 7, 2022

Signature Gatherer

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March 4, 2022

Empire Records

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March 2, 2022

The Storytelling Genius of Gunsmoke

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February 28, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Brownsville Newspaper

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February 25, 2022

An Orb of Beaverwood

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February 23, 2022

Nail Shop Meditations (2)

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February 21, 2022

A Philosophy of Walking

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February 18, 2022

Songs of Praise

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February 16, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Love Letter in a Chinese Lounge

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February 13, 2022

Super Sunday in Newport

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February 11, 2022

The Fantasy of Van Life

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February 9, 2022

Rereading East of Eden

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February 7, 2022

Coffee Shop Ruminations

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February 4, 2022

RIP Bud Clark

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February 2, 2022

Journals

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January 31, 2022

Ted Williams and Dad

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January 26, 2022

Seven Bald Eagles

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January 24, 2022

Reading

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January 19, 2022

The Case of the Savage Spam

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January 17, 2022

Meditations in a Nail Shop

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January 14, 2022

A Poem Takes on New Meaning

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.

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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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