Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches
Dave Thorvald Olson, storymakerSpoken-word postcards and free-verse dispatches — riffing on Beat and counter-culture lit, poetic life on the road, and historic heroes. Since 2005, Dave hand-makes each communiqué, alchemizing spontaneous readings, field recordings, and ambient sound from splendid locales.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 101 | Founded | 20 years ago |
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| Categories | Society & CulturePersonal JournalsPlaces & Travel | ||||
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not just cereal. also alchemists and pop buddhist riffs
Video reading of this same dispatch (in moderately different edit) is at daveostory.com/film-vids-docs/postcards-video/cereal-and-hypnotists-four-poems-from-the-caboose/
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Riffing about earthquake scars, zen temples, sea swims, scrapbooks, aliens, dinosaurs & 7″ records while rain falls in an engawa in Noto – a peninsula at the end of the world
wall of our quarters at the “fish house” in Noto, Ishikawa, Japan
Rain fa... more
Poems on hotel letterhead, resplendent with stamps – crafted in mountains, on tracks and seas, while finding ways to be lost, avoiding pirates and ghosts, bouncing – from pastoral Lower Canada across radio waves to a provincial caboose in Japan, onwa... more
Analog loops, guitars, feedback and poetry about impossible alleys, 8 seat bars, villages with book shops, woolen scarves, Fado, Kathmandu mud, and umbrellas thwarting tactility.
“Rainy Mystery Alley” – made by “Thorvald and Thurston” in a Provo bas... more
Items, loosely coupled for convenience, and maybe not 100 after all, likely more
A Hungarian habit of recollection from creative endeavors to life admin, communiques and campsites, flowing in freeform from Kura barn with “Olson Family Band” riffing ... more
Riffs about the glory of journals, diaries, notebooks full of musings and importance of turning off inner-critic and not overthinking while savoring the process of transcription, curation and further creative wonderment from Kura barn in provincial J... more
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 choruses fresh from diaries – plus Royal hospitals, poetic devices and question mark eyeb... more
Indulge Me, Logistically – Postcard #86 (at artist Yumeji birthplace museum)
Let’s not lose each other amidst the table cloth being pulled out from under glasses and dishes. Meaning: some technical jibber-jabber about claiming feeds sparks a history... more
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- Lighthouse
Soothing to my mind. Beautiful work from the heart of one of my favourite fellow renegades.
Apple Podcasts5VictoriousA
Canada8 years ago - Linking the brilliant and what's right in front of our collective noses...
In Postcards, Mr. Olsen shares his stream-of-consciousness mindset, bridging gaps between hockey and music, between present rapports and sacred histories of a far-flung nations, and betwixt cathartic loss and the joy of glimpsing hope in ravines both figurative and real.
With each cast of the pod, Dave shares travel experiences, poetry, wit, pithy observations on nature, relationships, generational interactions, and basic good-times how-to no matter where you find yourself.
It's joy in a small ... more
Apple Podcasts5Nabspat
United States9 years ago - Travel companion
For those of you who love to travel and enjoy the company of good literature, Postcards from Gravelly Beach is an essential companion. On many an occasion, because of work, I find myself alone in a new city exploring the sights and sounds. Like a good travel companion, Dave has been with me on many a long walk with just the right thing to say. A sliver of appropriate introspection here, a recital of inspiring poetry there, his selections always hit the mark and leave the indelible impressions of... more
Apple Podcasts4cnodnarbUnited States19 years ago - Sweet Literary Smack
Dave O has an extraordinary ability to put together an eclectic mix of literary goodness. Thinking and feeling. Logic and lust. Sober and... well... decidedly not. I've been a long time subscriber and have yet to be disappointed with a single episode. Addictive, mellow and satisfying.
Apple Podcasts5Lara TukwilaUnited States19 years ago
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