Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 7 – A Blog by Matt Love

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May 27, 2024

At the Siuslaw Jetty

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May 22, 2024

Three Poems About the Homeless

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May 20, 2024

Our First Fort Together

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May 15, 2024

Chumming

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May 14, 2024

The Fixer Upper

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May 8, 2024

The End of a Scene

Sonny and The Big Clean-Up Day

May 6, 2024

Sonny and the Big Clean-up Day (New e-book released)

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May 1, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: Pre Lives!

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April 29, 2024

Human Rescue

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April 24, 2024

Birthday Camping Trip

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April 22, 2024

An Osprey Man

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April 17, 2024

Thirty-eight Years on the Job

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April 15, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: Degenerate Wednesday

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April 12, 2024

Be a Citizen!

April 10, 2024

Morning in a Dog Park

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April 9, 2024

“Responding to a Message of Heartbreak” Writing Workshop in Astoria, July 20

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April 8, 2024

AI Matt Love on Oregon’s Beaches

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April 5, 2024

Starbucks Order Pickup

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April 3, 2024

Once More into the Breach with Mark, My Homeless Friend

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April 1, 2024

Up On a Broomstick

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March 27, 2024

Rainy Morning Homeless Meditations

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March 25, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: Afternoon Images

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March 20, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: The Caregiver

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March 18, 2024

Full Moon Homeless Rider

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March 15, 2024

Walk This Way!

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March 13, 2024

Prayer Group

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March 10, 2024

Thoughts on Turning 60

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March 6, 2024

Piano Man

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March 5, 2024

Elmer the Tavern Dog!

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March 4, 2024

Oregon Tavern Age: Waiting

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February 28, 2024

SPLAAAP! BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

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February 26, 2024

My Greatest Dream Ever

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February 21, 2024

The Beaver Artist

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February 19, 2024

5:00 AM Walks

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February 14, 2024

First Beach Run with Elmer

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February 12, 2024

Propane Tank

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February 7, 2024

American Arrogance

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February 5, 2024

Friday Coffee Shop Musings

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February 2, 2024

Homeless Woman Rides a Barbie Bike Handless!

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January 31, 2024

The Severed Head

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.

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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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