Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches

Dave Thorvald Olson, storymaker
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Spoken-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.

  1. 2025/11/12

    Cereal and Hypnotists – Postcard #93

    Reading poems from Muriel’s Journey and beyond—small box of cereal, alchemist confer with hypnotists, Osaka Afternoon—free-verse reflections from the caboose on poetry, community, and finding home in Japan.

  2. 2025/11/03

    Noto Roadtrip Diary – Postcard #92

    Riffing about earthquake scars, zen temples, sea swims, scrapbooks, aliens, dinosaurs & 7″ records while rain falls in an engawa […]

  3. 2025/10/20

    Items Forgotten (on Spoken Word Radio) – Postcard #91

    Poems on hotel letterhead, resplendent with stamps – crafted in mountains, on tracks and seas, while finding ways to be […]

  4. 2025/06/03

    “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 […]

  5. 2024/12/31

    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 […]

  6. 2022/12/10

    “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 […]

  7. 2022/11/23

    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 […]

  8. 2022/11/09

    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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Spoken-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.

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