Podcast of Connie Dover on Poetry
Present Magazine, Kansas City’s increasingly impressive online magazine, has a feature on Connie Dover and her first book of poetry, Winter Count
There are a couple of poems quoted in their entirety, and even better is that Connie features in a two-part podcast with the Present Magazine folk. The podcast is called Listen
If you don’t know what a podcast is - in this instance it’s just two audio files, both MP3s and you listen to them the way you listen to any other MP3s.
Dover is well known in Kansas City as a singer of traditional folk songs from Ireland and Britain, as well as from America.
As we mentioned already Connie Dover kicks off this weekend’s inaugural Kansas City Literary Festival on Friday May 18, 2007, with a reading of her poetry accompanied by a musical performance by Mason Brown and friends.
Her poetry introduces characters and scenes that do not fit squarely into picturesque western plains, Appalachian Mountains, or the emerald hills of Ireland; places that she sings about where the subjects in traditional folk and Celtic songs reside. Rather than write soul-baring confessionals, she studies society-at-large and offers an unflinching look at unsettled lives, misguided political intentions, the messiness of relationships, and the complications of modern life.
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