Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 25 – A Blog by Matt Love

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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

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January 22, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 16)

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January 21, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 15)

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January 20, 2020

Dogs Reigning in My Mind (Part 14)

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January 19, 2020

A Ken Kesey Christmas (For Tim)

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January 18, 2020

Planet of the Apes Jello Shots

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January 17, 2020

Man Riding with Chainsaw

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January 15, 2020

Of Thinking In Rain

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January 14, 2020

Help with OTA

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January 13, 2020

Australia is the Size of Oregon

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January 7, 2020

Fort Questions

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January 7, 2020

Cassandra’s Christmas

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January 6, 2020

A Gift of Agates and Meth

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January 3, 2020

Writing Workshop in Astoria March, 7

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January 1, 2020

Givin’ the New Year’s Finger in the Sand

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December 31, 2019

Taking Stock of 2019

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December 30, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 10)

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December 29, 2019

Considerations from Oregon City

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December 26, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 9)

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December 25, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 8)

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December 24, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 7)

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December 21, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 6)

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December 20, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 5)

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December 18, 2019

Last Day

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December 17, 2019

Secret Coast Radio #12

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December 16, 2019

Trump Table Christmas

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December 14, 2019

RV Park Christmas (Part 4)

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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