Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 24 – A Blog by Matt Love

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March 15, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 11-Creative Writing

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March 14, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 10-Rum Night

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March 14, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 9-The Little Red Book

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March 14, 2020

Nestucca Spit Press Writing Curriculum

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March 11, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 8-Bus Ride

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March 8, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 7-Calligraphy

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March 6, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 6-The Legend of Don Harrison

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March 6, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 5-Big Jim Ritacco

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March 4, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 4-Football

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March 1, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 3-Portland Trail Blazers

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March 1, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 2-Hackey Sack

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February 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 1-Mill Town

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February 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Preface

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February 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: An Oregon City Memoir..an Introduction

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February 27, 2020

Rain Thoughts

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February 26, 2020

Secret Radio Radio 15

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February 25, 2020

River View Thoughts—Saturday

February 24, 2020

Note from a Rain Reader

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February 21, 2020

Headlamp Kindness

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February 20, 2020

Planting Trees

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February 18, 2020

Vonnegut at Trump at the Bar

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February 17, 2020

A Gift of Art

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February 13, 2020

From the Dust

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February 12, 2020

Meditations with a Porter

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February 11, 2020

Bird House

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February 10, 2020

On Reading in Libraries

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February 8, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 6)

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February 7, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 5)

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February 6, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 4)

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February 5, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 3)

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February 4, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 2)

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February 3, 2020

Elk Christmas (Part 1)

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February 2, 2020

The Far Out Story of Vortex I

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January 31, 2020

Thoughts on a Story

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January 29, 2020

Secret Coast Radio #14

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January 28, 2020

Oregon Tavern Age: Pig Farmer

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January 26, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 19)

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January 24, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 18)

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January 23, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 17)

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January 22, 2020

Secret Coast Radio 13

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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