Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 21

September 14, 2020

In Line at the Post Office Blues

September 6, 2020

The One-word Trucker Outreach Writing Project (part 2)

September 4, 2020

The One-word Trucker Outreach Writing Project

September 3, 2020

Excerpt from a Letter that I Hope Will Change the Course of My Life

September 2, 2020

On Vortex I in 1970 by Nicholas von Hoffman

August 28, 2020

Letter to Governor McCall in Praise of Vortex

August 27, 2020

Happy 50th Anniversary Vortex I

August 20, 2020

Excerpt from Meth Town, My Upcoming Western

August 18, 2020

They’re Watering the Football Field

August 12, 2020

On the Hieroglyphics of Gull Tracks

August 4, 2020

Caves, Cliffs, Erosion and Shit Going Down

August 3, 2020

Some Thoughts on My Writing Process

July 31, 2020

Three Excerpts From Lark Jameson’s Stories

July 29, 2020

Lark Jameson’s Story Summaries

July 28, 2020

A Little About Lark Jameson, Writer

July 27, 2020

Introducing Lark Jameson, New Oregon Writer of Erotica

July 24, 2020

Intent

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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What to Write About

A Vortex I Story

When Fog Met Smoke

Oregon Tavern Age: Horny Rod

Corona Virus Thoughts #14

Country Music Morning Fog

In Line at the Post Office Blues

The One-word Trucker Outreach Writing Project (part 2)

The One-word Trucker Outreach Writing Project

Excerpt from a Letter that I Hope Will Change the Course of My Life

A Note on the Road

Oregon Tavern Age: Detox

Corona Virus Thoughts #13

A Stroll Through My Forts

On Vortex I in 1970 by Nicholas von Hoffman

Letter to Governor McCall in Praise of Vortex

Dr. Cameron Bangs at Vortex I

Vortex Voices

Tom McCall at Vortex I

On Vortex 50 Years Later

Happy 50th Anniversary Vortex I

Pandemic Writing Assignment

Excerpt from Meth Town, My Upcoming Western

Corona Virus Thoughts #12

Blackberries in Literature

They’re Watering the Football Field

Oregon Tavern Age: Skunk

Fort Fire

Some Fort Meditations

Drugged by Oregon

The Return of Nurse Ratched