Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 22

July 23, 2020

Recent Sights Along Highway 101

July 21, 2020

Lines that Arrested Me from Camus’ Notebooks (1942-1951)

July 13, 2020

Some Suggested New Names for RVs in Contemporary America

July 4, 2020

Fourth of July Frivolous Word Frenzy

July 4, 2020

Fourth of July Corona Virus Thoughts

July 3, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: A Summer Afternoon

July 1, 2020

Igniting New Writing via Richard Hugo Workshop in Astoria Sept 19

June 29, 2020

The Great Debasing of Americans (by Americans)

June 26, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Trick or Pimp?

June 16, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Shots, Shots, Shots

June 9, 2020

New Nestucca Spit Press Projects

June 9, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: THE MOTHER OF ALL PUDDINGS

June 5, 2020

A Modest Proposal in the Spirit of Tom McCall to Reopen Coastal State Parks

May 28, 2020

Reopening OTA Country in Reedsport

May 20, 2020

Tail Gate Makeout Session

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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A Brief Bumble Bee Story

Recent Sights Along Highway 101

CB Radio Man

Corona Virus Thoughts #10

Chipmunk Sex Fever!

Lines that Arrested Me from Camus’ Notebooks (1942-1951)

Elbow Patches!

Corona Virus Thoughts #9

Secret Coast Radio #22

Some Suggested New Names for RVs in Contemporary America

Fourth of July Frivolous Word Frenzy

Fourth of July Corona Virus Thoughts

Oregon Tavern Age: A Summer Afternoon

Trump 2020 at the Beach

Igniting New Writing via Richard Hugo Workshop in Astoria Sept 19

The Great Debasing of Americans (by Americans)

A Gift of Beaverwood Art

Lake Meditations

Dangerous Writing

A Tribute To Alfie the Dog

Secret Coast Radio #21

Oregon Tavern Age: Trick or Pimp?

Some Dog Thoughts

Bozo the Dog

His First Tip

Oregon Tavern Age: Shots, Shots, Shots

New Nestucca Spit Press Projects

Corona Virus Thoughts 8

Oregon Tavern Age: THE MOTHER OF ALL PUDDINGS

Camp Fire Thoughts

If I Hear…

Secret Coast Radio #20

A Modest Proposal in the Spirit of Tom McCall to Reopen Coastal State Parks

Class

Corona Virus Thoughts #7

Panning During the Pandemic

He Cared

Reopening OTA Country in Reedsport

The Drummer

Tail Gate Makeout Session