Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 4

October 2, 2024

Never Stop Pre: The Enduring Inspiration of America’s Greatest Sports Legend…by Matt Love (new book out!)

September 26, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: Silver Dollar at Noon

September 16, 2024

Homeless Housewarming Invitation

September 6, 2024

Semi Topless Stranger in the Park

September 4, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: Hamburger Helper

August 26, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: Noon Friday

August 21, 2024

Thoughts on Giving Away The Old Crow Book Club to Homeless People

August 19, 2024

Thoughts on Portland Punk Rock and Homelessness

August 12, 2024

New Second Edition Updated E-book of The Old Crow Book Club

August 7, 2024

The End of Kelp Stories on the Oregon Coast

August 5, 2024

The Parable of the Lost Sheep and a Fentanyl Smoker

August 2, 2024

UNSHELTERED—None of Us Are Home Until All of Us Are Home

July 31, 2024

In Praise of Public Drinking Fountains!

July 29, 2024

Some Thoughts on Teaching a Writing Workshop

July 22, 2024

Back Deck 100 Degree Ruminations

July 15, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: What Would Jesus Do?

July 10, 2024

Reading Hart Crane with the Husky

July 4, 2024

Proposed Constitutional Changes to Save the Republic (if it’s worth saving) on the 4th of July

July 2, 2024

Nestucca Spit Press 4th of July Blowout Sale!

July 1, 2024

A Socialist Nine Holes of Golf

June 27, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: Narcan Angel

June 17, 2024

Rest in Peace Earl Mohr

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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Excerpt from Never Stop Pre

Never Stop Pre: The Enduring Inspiration of America’s Greatest Sports Legend…by Matt Love (new book out!)

A Tanka

Message from a Coyote

Surrealism and the Homeless

Oregon Tavern Age: Silver Dollar at Noon

Sunrise at Sunset Bay

Restoring a Human Watercourse

Homeless Housewarming Invitation

Semi Topless Stranger in the Park

Some Thoughts on Football

The Stone Oregon Era

Oregon Tavern Age: Hamburger Helper

Oregon Tavern Age: Noon Friday

Thoughts on Giving Away The Old Crow Book Club to Homeless People

Hey Joe

Thoughts on Portland Punk Rock and Homelessness

Dean the Duck Man

New Second Edition Updated E-book of The Old Crow Book Club

The End of Kelp Stories on the Oregon Coast

The Parable of the Lost Sheep and a Fentanyl Smoker

UNSHELTERED—None of Us Are Home Until All of Us Are Home

In Praise of Public Drinking Fountains!

Riparian Rage

Some Thoughts on Teaching a Writing Workshop

A Piece of Art

Back Deck 100 Degree Ruminations

Oregon Tavern Age: What Would Jesus Do?

A Gift of Sunglasses

Reading Hart Crane with the Husky

Proposed Constitutional Changes to Save the Republic (if it’s worth saving) on the 4th of July

Nestucca Spit Press 4th of July Blowout Sale!

A Socialist Nine Holes of Golf

Nothing Gold Beach Can Stay

Oregon Tavern Age: Surrealism

Oregon Tavern Age: Narcan Angel

Oregon Tavern Age: Evergreen

The Wheelchair Couple

The Puppy

Rest in Peace Earl Mohr