Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 26 – A Blog by Matt Love

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November 21, 2019

Hacksville (A Hack Poem)

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November 18, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 11

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November 14, 2019

Fog Thoughts

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November 12, 2019

Three Fort Haiku Sunday

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November 11, 2019

Bridge Sweeper

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November 8, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 10

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November 6, 2019

Nov. 3, 2019

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November 5, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Questions

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November 4, 2019

The Humboldt Club

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November 2, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age Book Release

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October 29, 2019

Guardrail Man

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October 28, 2019

Beach Cliff Cavedweller

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October 23, 2019

Coyote Heals a Broken Heart

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October 22, 2019

On Writing in Longhand

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October 20, 2019

Pizza Autistic Meet Up

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October 16, 2019

A Few Copies Remain of the Bonnie & Clyde Files

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October 16, 2019

Corvette Homeless Man

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October 13, 2019

Images From Reedsport

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October 10, 2019

7:30 AM gas station convenience store apocalypse

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October 8, 2019

On Quality Communication

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October 5, 2019

Filling Station Man

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October 1, 2019

A Fort Fight

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September 30, 2019

Goat Notes

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September 27, 2019

Her Gold

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September 27, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 9

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September 24, 2019

Bloodhound in Rain

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September 22, 2019

Mr. Tambourine Man and the Trumpians

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September 20, 2019

Pete and Author Coaching

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September 17, 2019

A Last Workshop?

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September 17, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Box

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September 16, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Rallying

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September 12, 2019

No Haircut

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September 11, 2019

Random Workday Thoughts

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September 10, 2019

Fort Kelp

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September 9, 2019

Dark Morning Walk

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September 6, 2019

Fort T-Shirts!

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September 4, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 8

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September 4, 2019

Return to Tennis

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September 3, 2019

Drizzle Coffee Shop

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August 28, 2019

Reading Henry Miller’s Nonfiction

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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