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16 episodes
Language
EnglishPublisher
Dave Thorvald Olson, storymakerExplicit
No
Date created
2006/02/07
Latest episode
2025/11/12
Average duration
-
Release period
191 days
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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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Cereal and Hypnotists – Postcard #93
2025/11/12
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.
Noto Roadtrip Diary – Postcard #92
2025/11/03
Riffing about earthquake scars, zen temples, sea swims, scrapbooks, aliens, dinosaurs & 7″ records while rain falls in an engawa […]
Items Forgotten (on Spoken Word Radio) – Postcard #91
2025/10/20
Poems on hotel letterhead, resplendent with stamps – crafted in mountains, on tracks and seas, while finding ways to be […]
“Rainy Mystery Alley” (Thorvald and Thurston, spoken word space) – Postcard #90
2025/06/03
Analog loops, guitars, feedback and poetry about impossible alleys, 8 seat bars, villages with book shops, woolen scarves, Fado, Kathmandu […]
100 Items, for 2024 – Postcard #89 (with Olson Family Band) {updated remix}
2024/12/31
A Hungarian habit of recollection from creative endeavors to life admin, communiques and campsites, flowing in freeform from Kura barn […]
“Personal Archeology” – Postcard #88 (+ via audio &/or video)
2022/12/10
Riffs about the glory of journals, diaries, notebooks full of musings and importance of turning off inner-critic and not overthinking […]
Nepal Stupa Choruses – Postcard #87
2022/11/23
Washing dishes and busted spectacles lead to rowing a lake in Nepal figuring out deity, enlightenment, peace and power with […]
Indulge Me, Logistically – Postcard #86
2022/11/09
Let’s not lose each other amidst the table cloth being pulled out from under glasses and dishes. Meaning: some technical […]
Lost the Plot (Finding Home) – Postcard #85
2021/11/10
Thinking about “going home in October” or even more, going far away from home via freeverse poetry, read directly from […]
Simon, Stolen, Shame – Postcard #84
2019/03/12
A heart-wrenching poem about an abducted boy called Simon – who lived nearby, was my age and sorta looked like me […]
Upon the Varley Trail – Postcard #83
2019/02/26
Along his namesake trail on banks of Lynn Creek comes story of Group of 7 bohemian painter Frederick Varley’s 10 […]
What Love Might Be… – Postcard #82
2019/02/04
Love in (most) all forms – from self to romance to heartbreak – explored through poems including: mis-quote from (probably not) Jack […]
Transient Cultural Riffs – Postcard #81
2018/12/25
Full of mis-spoken words, forgotten names and other sloppiness comes annotated thoughts (squished through time and space) for shut-ins, drifters […]
Sensei Larry’s Wisdom – Postcard #80
2018/11/18
Upon turning 70 years old, Dave’s dear sensei (since a teenage Utah community college stint), Larry Harper (among various monikers) […]
A Circumnavigation of Sorts – Postcard #79
2018/07/20
Float to Istanbul, Muscat and elsewhere, and check in with Cleopatra, Shakespeare, Francis Drake, Shah of Persia, Adam, Cain, Abel, […]
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Nabspat 2017/11/09
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 histor...
cnodnarb 2007/05/07
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 occa...
Lara Tukwila 2007/03/16
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... d...
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