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About Matt Love

Matt Love lives in Astoria on the Oregon Coast and is a lifelong educator and publisher of Nestucca Spit Press. He’s the author/editor of ten books about Oregon, including the Beaver State and Newport Trilogies. From 1998 to 2008 he served as caretaker of the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge near Pacific City. In 2009, Love won the Oregon Literary Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon history and literature. His latest book is Of Walking in Rain.

Creative Thinking Workshop: New Ways of Exploring and Honoring Nature

April 27, 2016 by Matt Love Leave a Comment

Join author and educator Matt Love for a unique writing and creative thinking workshop on Saturday, June 25 in Astoria that asks participants to reflect upon their relationship to nature and seek new ways of raising awareness to protect and honor the natural world. [Read More]

Filed Under: Happenings

Soul-Searching with Civic Boosters

April 21, 2016 by Matt Love Leave a Comment

Once upon a rainy day Matt Love (author and publisher of Nestucca Spit Press) and Jack Harris (co-founder and co-owner of Fort George Brewery) had a conversation about gentrification in Astoria. [Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Culture, Featured Writing Tagged With: Astoria, gentrification, Oregon

Meeting Billy Hults

November 2, 2014 by Matt Love Leave a Comment

Billy didn’t bat an eye and proceeded to give the flack a highly polished and brief lecture on the First Amendment and freedom of the press. The Flack had no authority to determine what qualified as a legitimate publication. If he didn’t let Billy pass, he’d be violating Billy’s Constitutional rights (and mine) and adding another unwanted twist to this controversy. Read More

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature, ULE

Jetties of Consciousness

February 3, 2014 by Matt Love 2 Comments

Jetties fascinate me. They teach me poetry and physics, life and death. They represent solidity and evanescence, ambition and ignorance. They are black and jagged, gray and serrated. They whip up a kind of slippery, spraying, salty ocean margarita I love imbibing. If anything can be said to be rock and roll in nature, an oxymoron of course, jetties are it.

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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Images, Featured Writing, Nature, ULE Tagged With: Dr. Feelgood, Great Pyramid of Giza, Napoleon, Panda Bear, Sylvia Beach Hotel

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Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

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