Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 20 – A Blog by Matt Love

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November 10, 2020

Trash as Tea Leaves

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November 9, 2020

Pick Up Your Trash

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November 6, 2020

Reflections on a Print Shop

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November 5, 2020

Museum of Old Names

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November 4, 2020

Pro Wrestling in Vernonia!

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November 3, 2020

Corona Virus Election Thoughts

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November 2, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Jaguar

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October 31, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #24

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October 30, 2020

Working for the Weekend

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October 29, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Hunter Biden

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October 28, 2020

Hope is Kindled (The Kids Might Be Alright)

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October 27, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #23

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October 26, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #18

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October 23, 2020

Resurrection of a Corduroy Coat

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October 22, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 8)

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October 21, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 7)

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October 20, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 6)

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October 19, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 5)

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October 15, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 4)

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October 14, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 3)

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October 13, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 2)

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October 12, 2020

Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 1)

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October 9, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #17

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October 8, 2020

Rusticate

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October 7, 2020

Roy Marx, Socialist Detective by Lark Jameson

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October 6, 2020

Bill

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October 5, 2020

Ode to a CD Jukebox

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October 2, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #16

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October 1, 2020

Kelp Consciousness

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September 30, 2020

Semi Naked Novelist?

September 29, 2020

An Essay on America (Part 2)

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September 28, 2020

An Essay on America (Part 1)

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September 25, 2020

Corona Virus Thoughts #15

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September 24, 2020

Writing from the Triggering Town Workshop

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September 23, 2020

Goodbye Old Corduroy Friend (Part 1)

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September 21, 2020

A Triggering Town Group

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September 18, 2020

Gin Drizzle

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September 17, 2020

Richard Hugo Lines

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September 16, 2020

Typewriter Rescue

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September 15, 2020

Waiting for Fogot

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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