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Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Dave Thorvald Olson, storymaker
16 episodes
2 days ago
Poetry communiqués and spoken-word dispatches – Since 2005, DaveO combines spontaneous readings, field recordings, and ambient sounds from global locales, riffing on Beat and counter-culture lit, free-verse life on the road, and historic literary heroes.
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Poetry communiqués and spoken-word dispatches – Since 2005, DaveO combines spontaneous readings, field recordings, and ambient sounds from global locales, riffing on Beat and counter-culture lit, free-verse life on the road, and historic literary heroes.
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Personal Journals
Places & Travel,
Society & Culture,
Performing Arts,
Philosophy
Episodes (16/16)
Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Noto Roadtrip Diary – Postcard #92
Riffing about earthquake scars, zen temples, sea swims, scrapbooks, aliens, dinosaurs & 7″ records while rain falls in an engawa […]
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5 days ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Items Forgotten (on Spoken Word Radio) – Postcard #91
Poems on hotel letterhead resplendent with stamps crafted in mountains, on tracks and seas, finding ways to be lost, avoiding […]
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2 weeks ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
“Rainy Mystery Alley” (Thorvald and Thurston, spoken word space) – Postcard #90
Analog loops, guitars, feedback and poetry about impossible alleys, 8 seat bars, villages with book shops, woolen scarves, Fado, Kathmandu […]
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5 months ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
100 Items, for 2024 – Postcard #89 (with Olson Family Band) {updated remix}
A Hungarian habit of recollection from creative endeavors to life admin, communiques and campsites, flowing in freeform from Kura barn […]
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10 months ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
“Personal Archeology” – Postcard #88 (+ via audio &/or video)
Riffs about the glory of journals, diaries, notebooks full of musings and importance of turning off inner-critic and not overthinking […]
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2 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Nepal Stupa Choruses – Postcard #87
Washing dishes and busted spectacles lead to rowing a lake in Nepal figuring out deity, enlightenment, peace and power with […]
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2 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Indulge Me, Logistically – Postcard #86
Let’s not lose each other amidst the table cloth being pulled out from under glasses and dishes. Meaning: some technical […]
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3 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Lost the Plot (Finding Home) – Postcard #85
Thinking about “going home in October” or even more, going far away from home via freeverse poetry, read directly from […]
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3 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Simon, Stolen, Shame – Postcard #84
A heart-wrenching poem about an abducted boy called Simon – who lived nearby, was my age and sorta looked like me […]
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6 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Upon the Varley Trail – Postcard #83
Along his namesake trail on banks of Lynn Creek comes story of Group of 7 bohemian painter Frederick Varley’s 10 […]
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6 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
What Love Might Be… – Postcard #82
Love in (most) all forms – from self to romance to heartbreak – explored through poems including: mis-quote from (probably not) Jack […]
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6 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Transient Cultural Riffs – Postcard #81
Full of mis-spoken words, forgotten names and other sloppiness comes annotated thoughts (squished through time and space) for shut-ins, drifters […]
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6 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Sensei Larry’s Wisdom – Postcard #80
Upon turning 70 years old, Dave’s dear sensei (since a teenage Utah community college stint), Larry Harper (among various monikers) […]
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6 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
A Circumnavigation of Sorts – Postcard #79
Float to Istanbul, Muscat and elsewhere, and check in with Cleopatra, Shakespeare, Francis Drake, Shah of Persia, Adam, Cain, Abel, […]
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7 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Disappearing for Invigoration – Postcard #78
Disappearing, invisibility, loneliness, depression, anxiety, being lost, trying to not be found, trying to find white space to invigorate… Sometimes […]
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7 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Hospital Letters and Flames – Postcard #77
In hospital with sedated Grandpa, Dave reads complete “Letters from Russia” epistolary literature project with frequent interruptions from visitors, nurses […]
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7 years ago

Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Poetry communiqués and spoken-word dispatches – Since 2005, DaveO combines spontaneous readings, field recordings, and ambient sounds from global locales, riffing on Beat and counter-culture lit, free-verse life on the road, and historic literary heroes.