Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 43

June 21, 2017

Oregon Tavern Age: White Wine Wednesday

June 20, 2017

Casting About with the Word “Cast”

June 19, 2017

Lost and Found 13 / The Creative Mind

June 13, 2017

Beaverwood Birthday–A Birthday Poem

June 10, 2017

On My Dream about Beavers and…Diana Ross

June 7, 2017

“Soul Train Rollin!”: Paul K and the Greatest Get Down Block Party in Oregon History

June 7, 2017

NSP Correspondent / Matthew Sproul / Cross Current

June 6, 2017

The Chill Tank or My Ten Days on the Boat in Jail

May 31, 2017

Lost and Found 11 / One Year In

May 29, 2017

Investigating Your Childhood-A Writing Exercise

May 26, 2017

Ocean Writing Workshop in Astoria July 15

May 23, 2017

Aimee Mann, Ray and a Faux Writer on the Alaska Highway

May 21, 2017

What I Did This Sunday on the Oregon Coast Before 1:30 P.M.

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May 19, 2017

Thoughts on Beach Bill’s 50th Anniversary and Draft Resolution

May 16, 2017

What Friends Did For Me Last Week

May 13, 2017

A Visit to the Valley of the Giants with a Special Oregonian Part 2

May 11, 2017

A Visit to the Valley of the Giants with a Special Oregonian Part 1

May 10, 2017

Maurice Lucas and Bob Straub: Two of My Oregon Heroes

May 9, 2017

Lost and Found 10 / Faces

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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Oregon Tavern Age: White Wine Wednesday

Casting About with the Word “Cast”

Bonnie and Clyde Files 4

One Year Without Sonny

Unopened Fortune Cookies

The Bonnie and Clyde Files 3

Lost and Found 13 / The Creative Mind

Oregon Tavern Age: Hammond

What I Miss About Teaching

Beaverwood Birthday–A Birthday Poem

The Bonnie and Clyde Files 2

Lost and Found 12 / Lists

On My Dream about Beavers and…Diana Ross

“Soul Train Rollin!”: Paul K and the Greatest Get Down Block Party in Oregon History

NSP Correspondent / Matthew Sproul / Cross Current

The Bonnie and Clyde Files 1

On a Rilke Biography

Questions of the Moment

Thank You Readers

The Chill Tank or My Ten Days on the Boat in Jail

A Conde McCullough Tribute

Lost and Found 11 / One Year In

What Does it Augur?

Investigating Your Childhood-A Writing Exercise

An OTA Monday Apology

Breaking Bread with Birds

Ocean Writing Workshop in Astoria July 15

Rapprochement

Aimee Mann, Ray and a Faux Writer on the Alaska Highway

What I Did This Sunday on the Oregon Coast Before 1:30 P.M.

Rock Bottom

A Message from Sonny