Dave starts the reading on a pier at Capitol lake and continues days later at Bill’s woodshed on Steamboat Island where he reads original free verse written in German countryside as well as works by French poet, Arthur Rimbaud.
Listen to Postcards from Gravelly Beach #31 (11:48, .mp3)
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DaveO – feeling chillaxed – reads from Kerouac’s Some of the Dharma, Bukowski’s Barfly and some of his own love junk while Christopher provides guitar and vocal stylings from the backyard at the Puget house.
Listen to Postcards from Gravelly Beach #12 (12:09, .mp3)
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From Quenn Elizabeth Park in beloved Vancouver, DaveO reads from J.D. Salinger’s “For Esme with Love and Squalor” and part of a “Letter from Russia” until disc golf hi-jinx ensue!
Download Postcards from Gravelly Beach #11 (10:27, .mp3)
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From a backyard in OlyWa, Dave reads from Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and a bit of hitch-hike narrative of his own recounting a trip up from North Carolina to Rhode Island during a cold November – backed with more smoking jazz tracks by Joe Williamson and colleagues in Banff circa 1990.
Download Postcards from Gravelly Beach #10 (10:18, .mp3)
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Dave Olson’s original essay about Glen Canyon Dam “Dam the Damn” (.pdf)
Dave O reads a Utah writer variety pack from Pe Ell, Washington featuring Françios Camoin, Levi Peterson (Alibris), and Ed Abbey (more Ed - interview and article in Canyon Country Zephyr) plus an original essay about Glen Canyon Dam.
Then, Lewis and Clark check in from their homestretch after scoring some whiskey, and Dave enlists the Jerry Garcia Band’s help to send evocative empathy to the post-Katrina, Gulf Coast.
Download Postcards from Gravelly Beach #9 (27:30, .mp3)
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snapshot of Ed’s old shed gutter in Pe Ell, WA
In Volume 8, DaveO read from Lewis and Clark’s journals as they lose horses on Sept 3rd, and Ed Abbey foretells the future in his modern classic, Desert Solitaire while and Uncle Weed continues telling a story about responsible eco-tage and desert enjoyment to the kids.
Download Postcards from Gravelly Beach #8 (14:57, .mp3)
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Snapshot: Columbia River Gorge near Goldendale, WA
Postcards from Gravelly Beach is a spoken word literature podcast featuring me (Dave O) reading literary stalwarts - from Russians to the beats - along with smatterings from original works - fiction, freeverse and expository.
Each episode is carefully homegrown - recorded spontaneously at some splendid locale and backed by an eclectic assortment of music.
Perhaps you'll wander along?
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