Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 39

January 13, 2018

Short Story from the City of Rain

January 9, 2018

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 5

January 7, 2018

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 4

January 6, 2018

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 3

January 5, 2018

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 2

January 4, 2018

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 1

January 3, 2018

Kindness/Gratitude Writing and Publishing Workshop in Astoria

December 23, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Waiting to Craft

December 20, 2017

Lines Composed While Eating Breakfast at the Ocean

December 15, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 35…Christmas Party!

December 13, 2017

How to Build a Driftwood Christmas Tree

December 12, 2017

Letter to a Driftwood Fort Apprentice

December 4, 2017

A Western Set in Western Oregon

November 29, 2017

The Legend of Drain Gravy Part 2

November 23, 2017

Remembrance of an Oregon Thanksgiving Football Past

November 23, 2017

Thanksgiving List

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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Smoke Eyes Tell the Truth

Probation Poem 1-8-18

On Friendship

Short Story from the City of Rain

Oregon Tavern Age: Cowbell

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 5

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 4

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 3

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 2

Dogs Raining (reigning) in My Mind Part 1

Talking to Mr. Seal

Oregon Tavern Age: Silence

Kindness/Gratitude Writing and Publishing Workshop in Astoria

On a Nativity Scene

Random December Thoughts

Oregon Tavern Age: Waiting to Craft

Elk and Christmas Cookies

Faces Coming Out Of the Rain

Bonnie and Clyde Files 36

Lines Composed While Eating Breakfast at the Ocean

A Secret Place

Bonnie and Clyde Files 35…Christmas Party!

How to Build a Driftwood Christmas Tree

Probation poem 12-4-17

Bonnie and Clyde Files 34

Oregon Tavern Age: Relishing

Possible Christmas Tales

A Cryptic Note of Rain

Rolling into Port Orford

Letter to a Driftwood Fort Apprentice

Bonnie and Clyde Files 33

Culvert: A Love Story…Part 1

Firewood Man

A Western Set in Western Oregon

Oregon Tavern Age: Solo Pool

Some Lines on Rain

Bonnie and Clyde Files 32

The Legend of Drain Gravy Part 2

Remembrance of an Oregon Thanksgiving Football Past

Thanksgiving List