Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 39 – A Blog by Matt Love

December 22, 2017

Random December Thoughts

December 21, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Waiting to Craft

December 20, 2017

Elk and Christmas Cookies

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December 19, 2017

Faces Coming Out Of the Rain

December 18, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 36

December 16, 2017

Lines Composed While Eating Breakfast at the Ocean

December 15, 2017

A Secret Place

December 14, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 35…Christmas Party!

December 13, 2017

How to Build a Driftwood Christmas Tree

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December 12, 2017

Probation poem 12-4-17

December 11, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 34

December 9, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Relishing

December 8, 2017

Possible Christmas Tales

December 7, 2017

A Cryptic Note of Rain

December 6, 2017

Rolling into Port Orford

December 5, 2017

Letter to a Driftwood Fort Apprentice

December 4, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 33

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December 2, 2017

Culvert: A Love Story…Part 1

December 1, 2017

Firewood Man

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November 30, 2017

A Western Set in Western Oregon

November 29, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Solo Pool

November 28, 2017

Some Lines on Rain

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November 27, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 32

November 24, 2017

The Legend of Drain Gravy Part 2

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November 23, 2017

Remembrance of an Oregon Thanksgiving Football Past

November 23, 2017

Thanksgiving List

November 22, 2017

Random Rainy Thoughts

November 21, 2017

Probation Poem 11-13-17

November 20, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 31

November 18, 2017

Love is Movement

November 17, 2017

Things to Know About Coastal Oregon

November 16, 2017

Notes on a Novel

November 15, 2017

Life is Weather

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November 14, 2017

Smiling: A Story

November 13, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 30

November 11, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Milo

November 10, 2017

A Disquisition on Student Bus Shelters

November 9, 2017

A Random Day

November 8, 2017

A Book of Poetry

November 7, 2017

Writing Along with Monk and Rollins

NEVER STOP PRE

The Enduring Inspiration of America's Greatest Sports Legend

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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.

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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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