Postcards from Gravelly Beach

Dave Olson’s original (free-ed) haiku collection Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe -  Occasional haiku -1992 - 2004 (.pdf)

Dave Olson’s original haibun collection Four Haibun For You (.pdf).

In Volume 7, Dave, chillaxing with sake some smoking jazz tracks, reads from Kerouac’s “Lonesome Traveller,” “Mexico City Blues” and “American Haiku” plus Gary Snyder from “The Backcountry” and haiku from masters Issa Kobayashi and Basho and his own original haiku (.pdf) and haibun.

Postcards from Gravelly Beach#7 (14:22, .mp3)
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Snapshot : DaveO and the Mayor of Misasa, Tottori, Japan circa 1992

Dave O’s original “Letters from Russia” (.pdf).

In Volume six, DaveO sits with ducks at Olympia’s Capitol Lake on a windy day and reads from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “Confessions” and offers a bit of discourse on transparency, plus reads two more original “Letters from Russia” (.pdf).

Listen to Postcards from Gravelly Beach #6 (10:00, .mp3)
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“lucid blue of your eyes” - watercolor pencil by Dave Olson, Manzanita, Oregon

In Volume five, DaveO hangs out in the dark at Olympia’s Seven Oars park and reads Part 2 of Uncle Weed’s Red Rock Adventure, chats about Edward Abbey, and reads from Ed’s “Desert Solitaire” (scored fresh from Olympia’s Last Word Books).

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snapshot of DaveO at Arches Nat’l Park, near Moab, Utah, circa 1991

In Volume 4, DaveO reads from his own “Letters from Russia,” Leo Tolstoy’s epic “War and Peace” and a bit of French poetry while fumbling with pronunciation and enjoying a Guinness in the nighttime garden.

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Countryside, watercolour pencil by Dave Olson from “Letters from Russia”

In Volume 3, DaveO reads from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience” plus Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “100 Years of Solitude” and his own Portuguese Snapshots.

Listen to Postcards from Gravelly Beach #3 (13:20, .mp3)
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Snapshot: fishing boats at rest in Salema, Algarve, Portugal

Dave Olson’s original short story, “I Remember Florida” (.pdf)

Volume 2 in which DaveO reads from Gary Snyder’s “Left out in the Rain,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” and from original short story, “I Remember Florida.”

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(this curious image was scavenged from the interweb, if someone takes credit, please let me know)

DaveO’s original work “Uncle Weed’s Red Rock Adventure” (.pdf)

In podcast Volume 1, DaveO reads from his original “Uncle Weed’s Red Rock Adventure” plus a snippet from Richard Brautigan’s “Trout Fishing in America” and introduces the spoken word literature show thusly:

“Postcards from Gravelly Beach” is an occasionally-brewed podshow featuring spoken word with bits of literary discourse and maybe some tunes from time to time. I’ll read a little something of my own - a short story, essay, letters or maybe some free verse and also read something by someone else, likely a literary favorite from over the years - maybe even tying into a theme of some kind - or maybe not, we’ll see what happens. Mostly Postcards from Gravelly Beach podcast is about chillaxing with a beverage, digging the view in front of you, and listening to something new.”

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DaveO’s character Uncle Weed as drawn by Brandon G. Kiggins of NYC, circa 1988