Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 13 – A Blog by Matt Love

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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

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January 12, 2022

Obituaries of the Eugene Homeless

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January 10, 2022

The End of My Letters

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January 6, 2022

Restoring a Human Watercourse

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January 5, 2022

A Choice Cut on New Year’s Day

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January 3, 2022

Red Squirrel in the Snow

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December 29, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Smith River Tavern

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December 27, 2021

Nifty Thrifty

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December 24, 2021

Nog Walk

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December 22, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 9)

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December 20, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 8)

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December 19, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 7)

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December 17, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 6)

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December 15, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 5)

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December 13, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 4)

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December 12, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 3)

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December 9, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 2)

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December 8, 2021

Silver and Golden Christmas Falls (Part 1)

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December 6, 2021

On the Idea of Social Reform Novel about the Homeless

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December 2, 2021

Christmas Rakes (Part 4)

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December 1, 2021

Christmas Rakes (Part 3)

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November 30, 2021

Christmas Rakes (Part 2)

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November 29, 2021

Christmas Rakes (Part 1)

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November 28, 2021

Cape Disappointment by Chris Larson

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November 26, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts #26

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November 24, 2021

The Inspiration of Henry Kaiser and Vanport

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November 22, 2021

On Buying A Recliner

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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