Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 35

July 11, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 5)

July 6, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 4)

July 5, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 3)

July 4, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 2)

July 3, 2018

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 1)

July 2, 2018

Excerpt from an unpublished novel, Teacher of the Year

June 30, 2018

A Pile of Broken Wood and Americans Gone to Seed

June 26, 2018

On My Relationship with Bob Dylan

June 18, 2018

New Flavors to the Coffee Shop Novel

June 16, 2018

Breakfast at the Burn Pile, A Hummingbird Flies Through Fire

June 11, 2018

Lines from 6-4 Probation—a Non Poem

June 9, 2018

Love, Peace and Slot-Machine Coffee (Lost Oregon Writing)

June 5, 2018

Lines Written in the Fact_Fiction Workshop

June 4, 2018

Writing Workshop Notes and Prompts

June 1, 2018

Pie Breakfast at the Fort (For EU)

May 29, 2018

Reading Richard Brautigan in the Toyota Service Center

May 28, 2018

Notes for the Coffee Shop Novel

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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River Possibilities

Bald Eagle Traffic Jam

Dear Deer

Fort 4th of July

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 5)

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 4)

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 3)

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 2)

Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 1)

Excerpt from an unpublished novel, Teacher of the Year

Salmonberry Man

Withholding Judgment

A Christening

A Pile of Broken Wood and Americans Gone to Seed

Ode to the Wonder Dog

Drizzle at the Sanctuary

Playing Ball with The Mick

A Drifting Mind in the Dunes

Youngs Bay Coffee Shop

Christian Coffee Shop Notes

On My Relationship with Bob Dylan

New Flavors to the Coffee Shop Novel

Oregon Tavern Age: Novels

Lines from the Beach

Death on the Road

Rain Falls…

Breakfast at the Burn Pile, A Hummingbird Flies Through Fire

Lines from 6-4 Probation—a Non Poem

Thoughts on Heckletooth 3

Eagle Antidepressant

Oregon Tavern Age: Bio Hazard

Love, Peace and Slot-Machine Coffee (Lost Oregon Writing)

Lines Written in the Fact_Fiction Workshop

Thoughts on the Blog

Writing Workshop Notes and Prompts

Fort Hope

Dog Conversation

Pie Breakfast at the Fort (For EU)

Reading Richard Brautigan in the Toyota Service Center

Notes for the Coffee Shop Novel