Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 41 – A Blog by Matt Love

October 9, 2017

Notes from a Notepad

October 7, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Calling Dr. Bombay

October 6, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 24

October 5, 2017

Cliffs of Love

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October 4, 2017

Thoughts on Tom Petty

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October 2, 2017

Vortex I Light Man and River

October 2, 2017

On Birds

October 1, 2017

Thoughts on Recent Conversations

September 30, 2017

In Praise of the AlphaSmart

September 29, 2017

Ruminations from the Back Yard

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September 28, 2017

Probation Poem 9-25-17

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September 27, 2017

A Short Story About the City

September 26, 2017

Beach Rutting

September 25, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 23

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September 23, 2017

Polishing and Professionalizing Your Writing: A Workshop

September 22, 2017

Pelicans at the Jetty

September 21, 2017

Rainy Meditations

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September 20, 2017

A Trade for Fish

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September 19, 2017

Sonny’s Face, My Face

September 18, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 22

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September 15, 2017

100,000 Reads and Support for the Blog

September 14, 2017

Twenty Years Ago: Reflections on Bookshelf

September 13, 2017

All Loose Things and Thoughts on Perforated Paper

September 12, 2017

Level

September 11, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 21

September 9, 2017

Fort Chivalry Part 2

September 8, 2017

Fort Chivalry Part 1

September 7, 2017

Bumblebees and Butterflies

September 6, 2017

Foggy Revelations at the Fort

September 5, 2017

Roofing!

September 4, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 20

September 2, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Friar Part 2

September 1, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: Friar Part 1

August 31, 2017

Fort Crab

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August 30, 2017

Notes on Listing, Walking the Plank and Gaffs

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August 29, 2017

Another Poem from the Probation Office

August 28, 2017

Bonnie and Clyde Files 19

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August 26, 2017

Husky on the Detroit Dam

August 25, 2017

Ruminations on V-Neck Sweaters

August 24, 2017

A Trailer in Mind

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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