Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 30 – A Blog by Matt Love

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May 27, 2019

Beaver Cards!

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May 23, 2019

In Praise of Barter

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May 22, 2019

A New Job

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May 21, 2019

Letter From a Bonnie and Clyde Reader

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May 20, 2019

Response to Fort Protest

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May 15, 2019

The Portal

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May 14, 2019

Truck Stop Diner Coffee

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May 13, 2019

Baby Stroller Driftwood

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May 9, 2019

Beautiful Incongruities

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May 8, 2019

Morning Finds

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May 7, 2019

Recent Sights

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May 6, 2019

Reunion with Bonnie

May 3, 2019

Book Number 22: The Bonnie and Clyde Files

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May 2, 2019

Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (4)

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May 1, 2019

Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (3)

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April 30, 2019

Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (2)

The Bonnie & Clyde Files.

April 29, 2019

The Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (1)

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April 26, 2019

Dead Beavers

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April 25, 2019

Thoughts at the Jetty

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April 24, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: An Eagle Story

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April 23, 2019

Gratitude at the Jetty

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April 22, 2019

Rain Coffee Shop

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April 17, 2019

The Rock Legend of Don Harrison (Part 3)

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April 16, 2019

The Rock Legend of Don Harrison (Part 2)

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April 15, 2019

The Rock Legend of Don Harrison (Part 1)

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April 12, 2019

Notes for a Rain Novel

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April 10, 2019

Fort Protest

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April 9, 2019

Get Off My Cloud (An Epic Poem / Part 1)

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April 8, 2019

Cliffs of Meth (?)

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April 4, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Pickle Juice

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April 3, 2019

Of Thinking in Rain

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April 2, 2019

On Beaverwood

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April 1, 2019

Laundry Room Thoughts

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March 28, 2019

Three Quotes

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March 28, 2019

The Meth Miscreants

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March 27, 2019

Gus!

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March 26, 2019

On Seal Rock

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March 25, 2019

Quiet Coffee Shop

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March 22, 2019

Elk and a Meatloaf Sandwich

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March 21, 2019

Fort Sunset

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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